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37 “Say to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ‘Take out[a] the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside. 38 The censers of these who have sinned[b] at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them before Yahweh,[c] they are holy; and they will be a sign for the Israelites.’”[d] 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;

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:37 Literally “raise up”
  2. Numbers 16:38 Literally “sinners”
  3. Numbers 16:38 Literally “in the presence of Yahweh”
  4. Numbers 16:38 Literally “sons/children of Israel”