My guess is it'll hit you a couple weeks after us, we are just starting to get vibrant color
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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)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fb3royociml6n3ku2l2vs2hd/bafkreibbocm4gllqzfhepunbtbnuy6r7dwnb34zftrtno56l7ocvq5hbqq)
