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The Israelites regarded lead one of the materials worth taking as booty after they defeated the Midianites (Num. 31:9-21), but ritual cleansing was needed: Gold and silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead [oferet]--any article that can withstand fire--these you shall pass through fire and they shall be clean (Num. 31:22-23). Ezekiel the prophet recalls that lead was traded with merchants from distant Tarshish along with silver, iron, and tin: Tarshish traded with you because of your wealth of all kinds of goods; they bartered silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares (Ezek. 27:12; cf. Jer. 10:9). Lead may have been obtained from the mines of Gebel Rusas near the Red Sea. (4) There were several functioning mines in the Sinai Peninsula. A remarkably detailed description of mining for ores is given in the Book of Job (28:1-18), where the difficulties of mining are portrayed together with a compassionate account of the harsh lives of the miners. We also gather from an extra-biblical source, the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, that in 841 BCE the Assyrian monarch received precious tribute from Jehu King of Israel, including gold, silver, and lead. (5)
IxTheo result for Encyclopedia of material culture in the biblical world: a new "Biblisches Reallexikon" with the snippet quoted "While numerous citations on the treatment of metals (such as gold, silver, copper, bronze, iron) are found in bibl. texts, references on mn. and mt., that is, metal production, are rare."
This is fine dog superimposed badly on an illustration from Martyr's Mirror of people being burned
Strawberry and raspberry filling in an uncooked pie shell
palak paneer made with mustard greens from the garden
grey tabby cat on the back of an old navy & gold wingback chair
Roderick Spode (from Jeeves and Wooster TV series) stands between red banners in a brown shorts/red arm band uniform uniform gives a speech to a disinterested crowd of mixed age men and boys mostly in the same uniform.
book cover for To Shape a Dragon's Breath
A plate of sushi rolls, where two people have reached to grab pieces with chopsticks.
Book cover fro Peng Yin's Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics
A metric relic of the sixth wound of Christ showing it's "real life size" looks like a piece of paper with a concave Reuleaux triangle that has been colored in green, brown, and gold with Iota (Ι), Eta (Η), and Sigma (Σ) in the middle for the name of Jesus
Amulet created by nuns featuring St. Martin on the front. An enclosure with a prayer sewn in the middle, various decorations with metal, beads, ribbon.
Pizza in a sheet pan
Tea & Murder book cover
Book cover for Absentees: on variously missing persons by Daniel Heller_Roazen
Possessed Landscapes: Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar by Tomas Cole
Book cover for Enough is Enough by Matthew Bernice and Dean Detloof is red with a black smoke cloud and white lettering
Lots of cards and a small spiral bound book on a wooden table
Front yard garden in 4 beds with various structures, including an old wooden ladder, supporting lots of small green plants.
Square pie with lattice top and reddish fruit
Scene from Overcooked video game where everything has caught on fire.
A sheetpan full of potatoes
Gif of a middle aged woman in a date upper middle class living room hold ing a mug. The caption says "It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?"
Book cover for Martha Wells Platform Decay
Bottom of a slice of tortilla pizza with lots of browning
Sausage pizza
Idol holding kopiko caffeinated chocolate that often shows up in serial dramas.
Move poster image for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which I saw in theatre and have not seen since) shows Jim Carrey from nose to forehead looking up to an image of Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet laying on cracked ice in winter clothes.
Three garden beds and a pile of compost, bean teepee on the left, pea trellis in the furthest row on the right, lots of milk jug “cloches” covering plants from the cold. Window thermometer on the right showing current temp in the 50s.
Book in hand; Book cover shows pink eye with lots of tentacles. Title: Hell‘s heart Alexis Hall, tagline: Sapphic Moby Dick in Space
Screenshot from email text: Jon Kara!! It's renewal time again!!
Pinterest pin for a Redbubble sticker that shows a medicine bottle full of books with the label Anti Depressants
Canoe Meadows brown grasses up to a marshy bit of river bed, with trees off to the left and a mountain in the distance. High contrast clouds above.
Moth person sits by next to a stick and a sack legs crossed. Image Credit: Verin 1852 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/giant-peacock-moth/
Four tuna melts and one piece of cheese toast
Hellebore surrounded by mulch and a bit of today’s April snow. College buildings in the background.
Book cover for "How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave" by Maya Salameh shows title and author name to the left while on the right a green and white graphic appears to be a street map which visually transforms into the veins of a large leaf
Two lunch boxes with three sections: one berries, one baked turkey and onion rolls, one green beans a small wedge of cheese and a hard boiled egg.
Grey tabby, eyes wide open
White woman with green eyes and short brown hair, acne, visible lines on forehead and at eye corners, wears a maroon hoodie over a grey Tshirt with wired headset. Behind there is a large square-corner concrete column and a cubicle half wall with a child’s drawing of a cat. Overhead is florescent lighting and a droptile ceiling.
3 multi section containers with chicken rolls, cucumber salad, sliced tomatoe, roasted asparagus