16lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.
17`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;
18and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
19`And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days -- any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day -- ye and your captives;
20and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats` [hair], and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.`
21And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle, `This [is] the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses:
22only, the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
