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38 As for the censers of these [a]men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, make them into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they brought them near before Yahweh, and they are holy; and (A)they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.” 39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had brought near, and they hammered them out as a plating for the altar, 40 as a [b]memorial to the sons of Israel that (B)no [c]outsider who is not of the seed of Aaron should come near (C)to burn incense before Yahweh; so that he will not become like Korah and his congregation—just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:38 Lit sinners against their lives
  2. Numbers 16:40 Or reminder
  3. Numbers 16:40 Lit stranger