Numbers 16:39

New American Standard Bible 2020

So the priest Eleazar took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had offered, and they hammered them out as plating for the altar,

Cross References

1 Chronicles 24:2

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

2 Chronicles 26:18

They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been untrue and will have no honor from the Lord God.”

Ezra 2:62

These searched among their genealogical registration but they could not be located; so they were considered defiled and excluded from the priesthood.

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their own lives, have them made into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall serve as a sign to the sons of Israel.”

Numbers 16:40

as a reminder to the sons of Israel so that no layman, anyone who was not of the descendants of Aaron, would approach to burn incense before the Lord; then he would not become like Korah and his group—just as the Lord had spoken to him through Moses.