Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses:
In context
19As for you, camp outside the camp for seven days. Everyone who has killed a person and everyone who has touched a corpse must purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day — both you and your captives. 20You must also purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything made of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.” 21Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses: 22only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead — 23anything that can withstand fire, you must pass through the fire, and it will be clean, though it must still be purified with the water for impurity. And anything that cannot withstand fire, you must pass through the water.
