Numbers 31:22

Modern

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Traditional

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

Literal

Only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead—

Latin

…aurum, et argentum, et æs, et ferrum, et plumbum, et stannum,

Hebrew

English

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Israelite soldiers who touched dead bodies became ceremonially unclean (ritually impure). They had to go through the required purification rituals.

These rituals were routine, but they were important. They also had to purify their equipment (see 5:1–4; 19:1–22).

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