Numbers 16:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And each of you take his censer, put incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the LORD: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron– each of you with his censer.”

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  • 1 Sam 12:7 : 7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you before the LORD regarding all the LORD’s just actions toward you and your ancestors.

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  • Num 16:18-20
    3 verses
    89%

    18So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

    19When Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole community.

    20The Judgment on the Rebels The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 16:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    6Do this, Korah, you and all your company: Take censers,

    7put fire in them, and set incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses will be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!”

    8Moses said to Korah,“Listen now, you sons of Levi!

  • Num 16:16
    80%

    16Then Moses said to Korah,“You and all your company present yourselves before the LORD– you and they, and Aaron– tomorrow.

  • Lev 16:12-13
    2 verses
    80%

    12and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

    13He must then put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement lid which is above the ark of the testimony, so that he will not die.

  • Num 16:35-40
    6 verses
    80%

    35Then a fire went out from the LORD and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

    36The Atonement for the Rebellion(17:1) The LORD spoke to Moses:

    37“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.

    38As 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.”

    39So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

    40It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.

  • Num 16:45-47
    3 verses
    79%

    45“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

    46Then Moses said to Aaron,“Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD– the plague has begun!”

    47So Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.

  • Exod 30:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.

    8When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.

    9You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.

  • Lev 10:1
    74%

    1Nadab and Abihu Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

  • Num 4:17
    74%

    17Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Lev 8:2
    73%

    2“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, the sin offering bull, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

  • Exod 40:27
    72%

    27and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 30:34
    72%

    34The LORD said to Moses:“Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amounts

  • Ezek 8:11
    72%

    11Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel(with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

  • Num 16:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1The Rebellion of Korah Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites, took men

    2and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders of the community, chosen from the assembly, famous men.

    3And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them,“You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 6:49
    72%

    49But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered.

  • Lev 2:2
    72%

    2Then he must bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and the priest must scoop out from there a handful of its choice wheat flour and some of its olive oil in addition to all of its frankincense, and the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar– it is a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • Num 4:1
    71%

    1The Service of the Kohathites Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Exod 30:27
    71%

    27the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

  • Lev 9:2
    71%

    2and said to Aaron,“Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the LORD.

  • Lev 16:5
    71%

    5He must also take two male goats from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

  • Num 7:32
    71%

    32one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Lev 16:3
    71%

    3Day of Atonement Offerings“In this way Aaron is to enter into the sanctuary– with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

  • Exod 28:1
    71%

    1The Clothing of the Priests“And you, bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites, so that they may minister as my priests– Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

  • Num 7:20
    71%

    20one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Num 4:19
    71%

    19but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.

  • Exod 24:1
    70%

    1The Lord Ratifies the Covenant But to Moses the LORD said,“Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

  • Num 7:14
    70%

    14one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Lev 6:19
    70%

    19The Grain Offering of the Priests Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 15:12
    70%

    12You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.

  • Num 16:26
    70%

    26And he said to the community,“Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins.”

  • Lev 9:7
    70%

    7Moses then said to Aaron,“Approach the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement on behalf of yourself and on behalf of the people; and also make the people’s offering and make atonement on behalf of them just as the LORD has commanded.”

  • Num 7:80
    70%

    80one gold pan weighing 10 shekels, full of incense;

  • Exod 16:16
    70%

    16“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”

  • Exod 35:15
    70%

    15and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;