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Numbers 16:37-38
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37 “Tell[a] Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up[b] the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire[c] at a distance. 38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives,[d] they must be made[e] into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

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  1. Numbers 16:37 tn Heb “say to.”
  2. Numbers 16:37 tn The verb is the jussive with a vav (ו) coming after the imperative; it may be subordinated to form a purpose clause (“that he may pick up”) or the object of the imperative.
  3. Numbers 16:37 tn The Hebrew text just has “fire,” but it would be hard to conceive of this action apart from the idea of coals of fire.
  4. Numbers 16:38 tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.
  5. Numbers 16:38 tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. But there is no expressed subject for “and they shall make them,” and so it may be treated as a passive (“they shall [must] be made”).
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