Numbers 16:39 - The Scriptures 2009

³⁹ And El‛azar the priest took the bronze fire holders, which those who were burned up had brought, and they were beaten out as a covering on the slaughter-place –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers with which the Levites who were burned had offered incense, and they were hammered into broad sheets for a covering of the [brazen] altar [of burnt offering],

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

Common English Bible

³⁹ Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been consumed by fire and hammered them into a covering for the altar,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ Therefore, Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, by which those whom the burning devoured had made an offering, and he formed them into plates, affixing them to the altar,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had devoured: and beat them into plates, fastening them to the altar:

Numbers 16:39 Cross References

1 Chronicles 24:2

But Naḏaḇ and Aḇihu died before their father, and had no children, so El‛azar and Ithamar served as priests.

2 Chronicles 26:18

And they stood up against Sovereign Uzziyahu, and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziyahu, to burn incense to יהוה, but for the priests, the sons of Aharon, who are set-apart to burn incense. Get out of the set-apart place, for you have trespassed, and there is no esteem to you from יהוה Elohim.”

Ezra 2:62

These sought their register among those who were counted by genealogy, but they were not found, so they were barred from the priesthood as defiled.

Numbers 16:38

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

Numbers 16:40

a remembrance to the children of Yisra’ĕl that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aharon, should come near to offer incense before יהוה, and not be like Qoraḥ and his company – as יהוה had said to him through Mosheh.