Numbers 31:22

But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:

23And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:22And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Joshua 6:19But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord.

Job 28:2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:14-25

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the… Read the whole commentary →

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