Numbers 16:40 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴⁰ 5 Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ To be a memorial [a warning forever] to the Israelites, so that no outsider, that is, no one not of the descendants of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the Lord, lest he become as Korah and as his company, as the Lord said to Eleazar through Moses.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as Jehovah spake unto him by Moses.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ just as the LORD instructed him through Moses. This was a reminder for the Israelites that no outsider who isn’t one of Aaron’s descendants should approach to burn incense in the LORD’s presence, so as not to be like Korah and his community.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ so that the sons of Israel would have, thereafter, something to admonish them, lest any stranger, or anyone who is not of the offspring of Aaron, might approach to offer incense to the Lord, and lest he endure what happened to Korah, and to all his congregation, when the Lord spoke to Moses.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord: lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation: according as the Lord spoke to Moses.

Numbers 16:40 Cross References

Ezra 2:62

7 Their camels four hundred thirty-five, their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

Psalm 115:10

7 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

Ezekiel 40:46

And he measured the wall of the house six cubits: and the breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side.

Ezekiel 43:19

7 And the days being, expired, on the eighth day and thenceforward, the priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar, and the peace offerings: and I will be pacified towards you, saith the Lord God.

Leviticus 22:10

5 And they shall not profane the sanctified things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord:

Numbers 1:51

All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns, and standards, and the houses of their kindreds, round about the tabernacle of the covenant.

Numbers 16:39

4 And the Lord said to Moses:

Numbers 3:10

5 Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward.

Numbers 3:38

3 And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

Hebrews 5:4

3 For every one that is a partaker of milk, is unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

Joshua 4:7

2 The children of Ruben also and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasses, went armed before the children of Israel as Moses had commanded them.

Jude 1:11

0 But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon you most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,