Numbers 16:38
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
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King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)
the censers of these synners are halowed in theyr deethes: and let them be beten in to thyne places and fastened apon the altare. For they offred the before the Lorde and therfore they are holye and they shalbe a sygne vnto the childern of Israel.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
(For the censers of these synners are halowed thorow their soules) yt they maye be beate in to thinne plates, & fastened vpon ye altare. For they are offred before ye LORDE, & halowed: and they shalbe a token vnto ye childre of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1560)
The censers, I say, of these sinners, that destroyed themselues: and let them make of them broade plates for a couering of the Altar: for they offered them before the Lorde, therefore they shalbe holy, and they shall be a signe vnto the children of Israel.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
The censers of these sinners agaynst their owne soules: let them make of them brode plates for a coueryng of the aulter: For they offered them before the Lorde, and therfore they are halowed, and they shalbe a signe vnto the children of Israel.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Webster's Bible (1833)
even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
`even' the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.'
American Standard Version (1901)
even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
American Standard Version (1901)
even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children of Israel.
World English Bible (2000)
even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel."
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made 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.”
Referenced Verses
- Num 26:10 : 10 And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
- Prov 20:2 : 2 The fear of a king is like the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
- Ezek 14:8 : 8 And I will set my face against that man and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
- 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
- Num 17:10 : 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod back before the testimony, to be kept as a sign against the rebels; and you shall completely remove their murmurings from me, that they do not die.
- Hab 2:10 : 10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.
- 1 Kgs 2:23 : 23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
- Prov 1:18 : 18 And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
- Prov 8:36 : 36 But whoever sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.
- 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
- Num 16:40 : 40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no outsider, who is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he not be like Korah, and like his company: as the LORD said to him through Moses.
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- Num 16:39-402 verses90%
39And Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, with which they that were burned had offered; and they were made into broad plates for a covering of the altar.
40To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no outsider, who is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he not be like Korah, and like his company: as the LORD said to him through Moses.
- Num 16:36-372 verses86%
36And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
37Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers from the burning, and scatter the fire far away; for they are hallowed.
- Lev 16:12-132 verses76%
12And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it within the veil:
13And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he not die:
- Num 16:17-182 verses76%
17And take each man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring them before the LORD, each man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
18And they took each man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on them, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
- Exod 38:2-43 verses75%
2He made the horns on its four corners; the horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
3He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans; all its vessels he made of bronze.
4He made for the altar a bronze grate of network under its rim, beneath, reaching midway up.
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46And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire in it from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.
- Exod 27:2-43 verses74%
2And you shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.
3And you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its forks, and its firepans; all its vessels you shall make of bronze.
4And you shall make for it a grate, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.
- Num 4:13-142 verses74%
13And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it:
14And they shall put upon it all the vessels with which they serve about it, even the censers, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put in the poles of it.
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16The altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its base,
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39The bronze altar, its grate of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand,
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28And Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering as consecrations for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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25You shall receive them back from their hands and burn them on the altar as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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25And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn upon the altar.
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38Its wick trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold.
- Num 16:6-72 verses72%
6This do; Take your censers, Korah, and all his company.
7And put fire in them, and put incense in them before the LORD tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he shall be holy: you take too much upon you, sons of Levi.
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38It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
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1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.
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24You shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.
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38One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
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10The priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers shall he put upon his body, and take up the ashes which the fire has consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
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36And you shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
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16And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering:
- Exod 38:6-72 verses71%
6He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.
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20And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
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13And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
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18And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubim, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
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26And he overlaid it with pure gold, both its top, and its sides all around, and its horns: also he made a gold molding for it all around.
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30And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
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10But the fat, and the kidneys, and the covering above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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37Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy.
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16And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.
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28And he who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
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18And he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bull, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar all around.
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5Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire: it is a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
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18And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to the LORD, it is a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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16And the priest shall burn the memorial portion of it, part of the beaten grain, and part of the oil, with all the frankincense; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.