Moses Orders Further Execution and Purification

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Moshe, El'azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.

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But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.

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Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?

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Why, these are the ones who - because of Bil'am's advice -caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P'or incident, so that the plague broke out among ADONAI's community!

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Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.

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But the young girls who have never slept with a man, keep alive for yourselves.

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Pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a person or touched the corpse of someone slain, purify yourselves on the third and seventh days, you and your captives.

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Also purify every garment, whether of skin or goat's hair, and everything made of wood."

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El'azar the cohen said to the soldiers who had gone to the front, "This is the regulation from the Torah which ADONAI has ordered Moshe.

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Even though gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead

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can all withstand fire, so that you are indeed to purify everything made of these materials by having them pass through fire; nevertheless they must also be purified with the water for purification. Everything that can't withstand fire you are to have go through the water.

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On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean; after that you may enter the camp."

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