Numbers 31:11-20

11and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both people and animals.

12They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

13Moses, the priest Eleazar, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

14But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.

15“Have you let every female live?” he asked them.

16“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.

17So now, kill every male among the dependents and kill every woman who has gone to bed with a man,

18but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not gone to bed with a man.

19“You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.

20Also purify everything: garments, leather goods, things made of goat hair, and every article of wood.”