Numbers 31:22

22 Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the 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 You will purify yourselves and every garment and every object of hide and all the work of goats' hair, and every object of wood."

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of the battle who came from the war, "This [is] the decree of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses.

22 Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead--

23 everything that will go through the fire--you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean, and only in waters of impurity will it be purified. Whatever does not go into the fire you will pass through the waters.

24 And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp."