Numbers 31:22

You must put into a fire any gold or silver or bronze or iron or tin or lead things that you brought back from the battle.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21Then Eleazar said to the soldiers who had returned from the battle, “This is what Yahweh has instructed Moses:

23Put everything that will not burn into the fire, and then they will be acceptable for you to use. But also sprinkle those things with the water that causes things and people to become acceptable to God. The things that would burn if you put them in a fire, sprinkle them with that water.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:22Lamech’s other wife Zillah gave birth to a son whom she named Tubal-Cain. Later Tubal-Cain became a ◄blacksmith/one who made tools from bronze and iron►. Tubal-Cain had a younger sister whose name was Naamah.

Joshua 6:19But all the silver and gold and articles made from iron and bronze that you find, you must set apart for Yahweh. You must put those things in his treasury.”

Job 28:2People dig iron ore out of the ground, and they ◄smelt copper ore/heat copper ore to get the copper from it►.

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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