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37 “Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he shall take up the censers out of the midst of the [a]blaze, and you scatter [b]the burning coals abroad; for they are holy. 38 As for the censers of these [c]men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, make them into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they brought them near before Yahweh, and they are holy; and (A)they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.” 39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had brought near, and they hammered them out as a plating for the altar,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:37 Or place of burning
  2. Numbers 16:37 Lit the fire
  3. Numbers 16:38 Lit sinners against their lives

37 “Tell Eleazar(A) son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers(B) from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy— 38 the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives.(C) Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar,(D) for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign(E) to the Israelites.”

39 So Eleazar the priest(F) collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death,(G) and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

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