Numbers 16:45-47

The Voice

Eternal One: ⁴⁵Stay clear of this rebellious lot because I am going to devour them right now.

Moses and Aaron fell to the ground, hoping to abate God’s anger.

Moses (to Aaron): ⁴⁶Hurry, light your censer off of the altar’s flame, put incense on the flame, and bring it out into the midst of the congregation to cover their sins! The Eternal One’s anger has already headed into the crowd, carrying plague and destruction with it.

⁴⁷So Aaron rushed into the crowd with his sacred censer, even as people had already begun to suffer the plague. He stood there covering their sins with the incense smoke,

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