Moses Orders Further Execution and Purification

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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,

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and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of the battle.

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And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

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lo, 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.

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`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

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and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

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`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;

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and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats' hair , and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.'

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And 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:

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only, the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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every thing which may go into fire, ye cause to pass over through fire, and it hath been clean; only, with the water of separation it is cleansed, and all that may not go into fire, ye cause to pass over through water;

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and ye have washed your garments on the seventh day, and have been clean, and afterwards ye come in unto the camp.'

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