Numbers 31:22

Easy-to-Read Version

You must put gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead into the fire and then wash these things with the special water to make them pure. If something can be put in the fire, you must put it in fire to purify it. If things cannot be put in fire, you must still wash them with the special water.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

King James Version
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Lexham English Bible
Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead—

English Standard Version
only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

New Century Version
Put any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—

New English Translation
‘Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Amplified Bible
only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

New American Standard Bible
only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Geneva Bible (1587)
As for gold, and siluer, brasse, yron, tynne, and lead:

Legacy Standard Bible
only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead,

Complete Jewish Bible
Even though gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead

Darby Translation
Only the gold, and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

George Lamsa Translation
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Good News Translation
Everything that will not burn, such as gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead, is to be purified by passing it through fire. Everything else is to be purified by the water for purification.

Christian Standard Bible®
The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Literal Translation
only the gold, the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Golde, siluer brasse, yron, tynne and leed,

American Standard Version
howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Bible in Basic English
But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for golde, siluer, brasse, and iron, tinne, and lead,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

King James Version (1611)
Onely the gold, and the siluer, the brasse, the yron, the tinne, and the lead,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,

English Revised Version
howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Berean Standard Bible
Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead-

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The gold, and siluer, and bras, and yrun, and tiyn, and leed, and al thing that may passe by flawme, schal be purgid bi fier;

Young's Literal Translation
only, the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Update Bible Version
nevertheless the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Webster's Bible Translation
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

World English Bible
however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

New King James Version
"Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

New Living Translation
Anything made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—

New Life Bible
Take the gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead,

New Revised Standard
gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely the gold and the silver, - the bronze the iron, the tin and the lead,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,

Revised Standard Version
only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead,

Contextual Overview

¹³ Then Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the people went out of the camp to meet with the soldiers. ¹⁴ Moses was very angry with the leaders of the army, the commanders of 1000 men, and the commanders of 100 men, who came back from the war. ¹⁵ Moses said to them, "Why did you let the women live? ¹⁶ These are the women who listened to Balaam and caused the men of Israel to turn away from the Lord that time at Peor. The disease will come to the Lord 's people again. ¹⁷ Now, kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations with a man. ¹⁸ You can let all the young girls live—but only if they never had sexual relations with any man. ¹⁹ And then, all you men who killed other people must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must stay outside the camp even if you just touched a dead body. On the third day you and your prisoners must make yourselves pure. You must do the same thing again on the seventh day. ²⁰ You must wash all of your clothes. You must wash anything made with leather, wool, or wood. You must purify yourselves." ²¹ Then Eleazar the priest spoke to the soldiers. He said, "These are the rules that the Lord gave to Moses for soldiers coming back from war. ²²You must put gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead into the fire and then wash these things with the special water to make them pure. If something can be put in the fire, you must put it in fire to purify it. If things cannot be put in fire, you must still wash them with the special water.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:22 - brass Numbers 31:13 - without the camp Joshua 8:27 - the cattle Job 28:2 - Iron

Cross-References

Genesis 30:36
So the sons took all the spotted animals and led them to another place. They traveled for three days. Jacob stayed and took care of all the animals that were left.

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have noticed that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be. But the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:12
"The angel said, ‘Look, only the striped and spotted goats are mating. I am causing this to happen. I have seen all the wrong things Laban has been doing to you. I am doing this so that you can have all the new baby goats.

Genesis 31:13
I am the God who came to you at Bethel, and there you made an altar, poured olive oil on it, and made a promise to me. Now I want you to be ready to go back to the country where you were born.'"

Genesis 31:31
Jacob answered, "I left without telling you, because I was afraid. I thought you would take your daughters away from me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Brass - Render copper. See Genesis 4:22 note. The verse is curious as illustrating the variety of metals in use at this early date for domestic purposes. All these metals were common in Egypt centuries before the date of the Exodus.