Numbers 16:38 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁸ “The fire holders of these men who sinned against their own lives, let them be made into beaten plates as a covering for the altar. Because they brought them before יהוה, therefore they are set-apart. And let them become a sign to the children of Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 unto the children of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ The censers of these men who have sinned against themselves and at the cost of their own lives. Let the censers be made into hammered plates for a covering of the altar [of burnt offering], for they were used in offering before the Lord and therefore they are sacred. They shall be a sign [of warning] to the Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Hammer the censers of those who sinned and lost their lives into thin plates for the altar. Since they presented them in the LORD’s presence, they had become holy. They will be a sign for the Israelites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ in the deaths of these sinners. And let him form them into plates, and affix them to the altar, because incense had been offered in them to the Lord, and they were sanctified, and so that the sons of Israel may discern in them a sign and a memorial."

Numbers 16:38 Cross References

1 Kings 2:23

And Sovereign Shelomoh swore by יהוה, saying, “Elohim does so to me, and more also, if Aḏ

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 20:2

The dread of a sovereign is like the roaring of a lion; Whoever provokes him sins against his own life.

Proverbs 8:36

“But he who sins against me injures himself; All who hate me love death!”

Jeremiah 44:7

“And now, thus said יהוה, the Elohim of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 14:8

“And I shall set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I shall cut him off from the midst of My people. And you shall know that I am יהוה.

Habakkuk 2:10

“You have counselled shame for your house, to cut off many peoples, and your being is sinning.

Numbers 16:37

“Say to Elʽ

Numbers 16:39

And Elʽ

Numbers 16:40

a remembrance to the children of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 17:10

And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “Bring Aharon’s rod back before the Witness, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, so that you put an end to their grumblings against Me, lest they die.”

Numbers 26:10

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Qoraḥ

1 Corinthians 10:11

And all these came upon them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come,

2 Peter 2:6

and having reduced to ashes the cities of Seḏ