Numbers 16:39-48
1599 Geneva Bible
39 Then Eleazar the Priest took the brazen censers, which they that were burnt had offered, and made broad plates of them for a covering of the Altar.
40 It is a remembrance unto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not like [a]Korah and his company, as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.
41 ¶ But on the morrow all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
42 And when the Congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, then they [b]turned their faces toward the tabernacle of the Congregation: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
43 Then Moses and Aaron were come before the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
44 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Get you up from among this Congregation: for I will consume them quickly: then they fell upon their faces.
46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take the censer and put fire therein of the [c]Altar, and put therein incense, and go quickly unto the Congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord: the plague is begun.
47 Then Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran into the midst of the Congregation, and behold, the [d]plague was begun among the people, and he put incense, and made an atonement for the people.
48 And when he stood between the dead, and them that were alive, the [e]plague was stayed.
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- Numbers 16:40 Who presumed above his vocation.
- Numbers 16:42 Or fled, to wit, Moses and Aaron.
- Numbers 16:46 For it was not lawful to take any other fire, but of the altar of burnt offering, Lev. 10:1.
- Numbers 16:47 God had begun to punish the people.
- Numbers 16:48 God drew back his hand and ceased to punish them.
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