The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead,
Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, the forger of every kind of bronze and iron tools; Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
Moses, Eleazar the kohen, and all the princes of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
Eleazar said to the men of the army who had gone to war, “This is the regulation of the Torah Adonai gave to Moses:
and anything able to pass through fire is to be put through the fire and will then be clean. It is also to be purified with the water of cleansing. Anything that cannot stand the fire is to be put through the water.
All the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Adonai, and must go into the treasury of Adonai.”
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of Adonai which He had commanded Joshua.
