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The Book of Numbers, Chapter 31, Verse 23

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Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
King James Version
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
American Standard Version
everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water.
New English Translation
everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.
World English Bible
everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
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And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
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And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
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And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
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Take [it] of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, [for] an heave offering of the LORD.
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And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And the booty, [being] the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
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And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,