Numbers 31:22

22 Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead

Numbers 31:22 in Other Translations

22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

22 only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

22 Anything made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—

22 Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead

22 Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and 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 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the LORD gave Moses:

22 Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead

23 and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water.

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

Cross References

• 1. Joshua 6:19; Joshua 22:8