Numbers 31:20-23

Easy-to-Read Version

²⁰ You must wash all of your clothes. You must wash anything made with leather, wool, or wood. You must purify yourselves.”

²¹ Then Eleazar the priest spoke to the soldiers. He said, “These are the rules that the Lord gave to Moses for soldiers coming back from war. ^22-23 You must put gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead into the fire and then wash these things with the special water to make them pure. If something can be put in the fire, you must put it in fire to purify it. If things cannot be put in fire, you must still wash them with the special water.