Numbers 31:22

22 All of your 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 Make all of your clothes pure and clean. Everything that is made out of leather, goat hair or wood must be made pure."

21 Then the priest Eleazar spoke to the soldiers who had gone into battle. He said, "Here is what the law the LORD gave Moses requires.

22 All of your gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin and lead

23 must be put through fire. So must everything else that doesn't burn up. Then those things will be 'clean.' But they must also be made pure with the special water. In fact, everything that won't burn up must be put through that water.

24 On the seventh day wash your clothes. And you will be 'clean.' Then you can come into the camp."