16It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
17So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
18But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
19You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
20And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.
21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:
22But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
