Bible Verses

On the seventh day, you will wash your clothes and then be clean. You may then come back to the camp.”

But whatever would be melted by fire, you must pass through water.

The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead, not melted by fire, must be passed through the fire to become clean and purified by the water for purification.

The priest Eleazar said to the soldiers returning from this battle: “These are the regulations given by the Lord to Moses.

 also purify all clothing, everything made of skin, everything woven of goats’ hair, and everything made of wood.”

As for you, you must camp for seven days outside the camp, all of you who have killed a man or touched a corpse. Purify yourselves, you and your prisoners, on the third and seventh days;

Spare the lives only of the young girls who have not slept with a man and take them for yourselves.

So kill all the male children. Kill also all the women who have slept with a man.

These were the very ones who, on Balaam’s advice, tempted the people of Israel and made them unfaithful to the Lord at Peor: hence the epidemic which struck the community of Israel.

He said: “Why have you spared the lives of all the women?