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18 You are to allow the young women who haven’t yet had sexual relations with a man[a] to live for yourselves.”

Purification after the Battle

19 “Now you are to stay outside the camp for seven days, after which any of you who has killed a person[b] or touched someone who was killed may purify yourselves on the third day. You and your captives will be pure on the seventh day. 20 Furthermore, you are to purify every garment—that is, everything made of leather, goat’s hair, or containing wood.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:18 Lit. little ones among the women, who had not known a man by lying with him
  2. Numbers 31:19 Lit. soul