Numbers 31:22

THE MESSAGE

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,

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.

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

¹³Moses, Eleazar, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet the returning army outside the camp. Moses was furious with the army officers—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—as they came back from the battlefield: "What's this! You've let these women live! They're the ones who, under Balaam's direction, seduced the People of Israel away from God in that mess at Peor, causing the plague that hit God 's people. Finish your job: kill all the boys. Kill every woman who has slept with a man. The younger women who are virgins you can keep alive for yourselves. ¹⁹"Now here's what you are to do: Pitch tents outside the camp. All who have killed anyone or touched a corpse must stay outside the camp for seven days. Purify yourselves and your captives on the third and seventh days. Purify every piece of clothing and every utensil—everything made of leather, goat hair, or wood." ²¹Eleazar the priest then spoke to the soldiers who had fought in the battle: "This is the ruling from the Revelation that God gave Moses: Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—and anything else that can survive fire—must be passed through the fire; then it will be ritually purified. It must also be ritually washed in the Water-of-Cleansing. Further, whatever cannot survive fire must be put through that water. On the seventh day scrub your clothes; you will be ritually clean. Then you can return to camp."

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 31:12
"He said, ‘Watch closely. Notice that all the goats in the flock that are mating are streaked, speckled, and mottled. I know what Laban's been doing to you. I'm the God of Bethel where you consecrated a pillar and made a vow to me. Now be on your way, get out of this place, go home to your birthplace.'"

Genesis 31:31
Jacob answered Laban, "I was afraid. I thought you would take your daughters away from me by brute force. But as far as your gods are concerned, if you find that anybody here has them, that person dies. With all of us watching, look around. If you find anything here that belongs to you, take it." Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

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.