Put any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—
Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who made tools out of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is melted out of rocks.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went outside the camp to meet them.
Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to war, “These are the teachings that the Lord gave to Moses:
anything that will not burn—into the fire, and then it will be clean. But also purify those things with the cleansing water. Then they will be clean. If something cannot stand the fire, wash it with the water.
All the silver and gold and things made from bronze and iron belong to the Lord and must be saved for him.”
The people of Israel kept for themselves the animals and the other things the people of Ai had owned, as the Lord had commanded Joshua to do.
