Numbers 31:22

22 Any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead--

Numbers 31:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:22

Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin,
and the lead.
] These are excepted, and, though unclean, are not to be purified by washing, but in another way, by fire, as follows; all these metals were well known in those early times, and were made use of for instruments and vessels of various sorts.

Numbers 31:22 In-Context

20 Do the same for all the clothes and everything made of leather, goats' hair, or wood."

21 Then the priest Eleazar said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, "This is what the LORD's teachings told Moses to do:

22 Any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead--

23 anything that won't burn--must be put through fire in order to make it clean. Then it must also be put through the ritual water in order to take away its sin. Whatever might burn must [only] be put through the ritual water.

24 On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp."