Numbers 16:39

New Century Version

So Eleazar the priest gathered all the bronze pans that had been brought by the men who were burned up. He had the pans hammered into flat sheets to put on the altar,

Cross References

1 Chronicles 24:2

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

2 Chronicles 26:18

They told him he was wrong and said to him, “You don’t have the right to burn incense to the Lord. Only the priests, Aaron’s descendants, should burn the incense, because they have been made holy. Leave this holy place. You have been unfaithful, and the Lord God will not honor you for this.”

Ezra 2:62

These people searched for their family records but could not find them. So they could not be priests, because they were thought to be unclean.

Numbers 16:38

Take the pans of these men who sinned and lost their lives, and hammer them into flat sheets that will be used to cover the altar. They are holy, because they were presented to the Lord, and they will be a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 16:40

as the Lord had commanded him through Moses. These sheets were to remind the Israelites that only descendants of Aaron should burn incense before the Lord. Anyone else would die like Korah and his followers.