Numbers 16:38-40
Lexham English Bible
38 The censers of these who have sinned[a] at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them before Yahweh,[b] they are holy; and they will be a sign for the Israelites.’”[c] 39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly as plating for the altar; 40 it was a memorial for the Israelites,[d] so that no strange man[e] who is not from the offspring[f] of Aaron should approach the presence of Yahweh to burn a smoke offering;[g] he will not be like Korah and his company, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.[h]
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- Numbers 16:38 Literally “sinners”
- Numbers 16:38 Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”
- Numbers 16:38 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 16:40 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 16:40 NASB translates “no layman”
- Numbers 16:40 Literally “the seed”
- Numbers 16:40 That is, an incense offering
- Numbers 16:40 Or “through Moses”
Numbers 16:38-40
New International Version
38 the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives.(A) Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar,(B) for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign(C) to the Israelites.”
39 So Eleazar the priest(D) collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death,(E) and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar, 40 as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense(F) before the Lord,(G) or he would become like Korah and his followers.(H)
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