17 Kill all of the boys. And kill every woman who has made love to a man.
18 But save for yourselves every woman who has never made love to a man.
19 "All of you who have killed anyone must stay outside the camp for seven days. And all of you who have touched anyone who was killed must do the same thing. On the third and seventh days you must make yourselves pure. You must also make your prisoners pure.
20 Make all of your clothes pure and clean. Everything that is made out of leather, goat hair or wood must be made pure."
21 Then the priest Eleazar spoke to the soldiers who had gone into battle. He said, "Here is what the law the Lord gave Moses requires.
22 All of your gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin and lead
23 must be put through fire. So must everything else that doesn't burn up. Then those things will be 'clean.' But they must also be made pure with the special water. In fact, everything that won't burn up must be put through that water.