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Numbers 16:39-41
Lexham English Bible
Numbers 16:39-41
Lexham English Bible
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; 40 it was a memorial for the Israelites,[a] so that no strange man[b] who is not from the offspring[c] of Aaron should approach the presence of Yahweh to burn a smoke offering;[d] he will not be like Korah and his company, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.[e]
The Israelites Grumble
41 The next day all the community of the Israelites[f] grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of Yahweh!”
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- Numbers 16:40 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 16:40 NASB translates “no layman”
- Numbers 16:40 Literally “the seed”
- Numbers 16:40 That is, an incense offering
- Numbers 16:40 Or “through Moses”
- Numbers 16:41 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
Numbers 16:39-41
New International Version
Numbers 16:39-41
New International Version
39 So Eleazar the priest(A) collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death,(B) and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar, 40 as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense(C) before the Lord,(D) or he would become like Korah and his followers.(E)
41 The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the Lord’s people,” they said.
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