Numbers 16:39

New English Translation

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 24:2

Nadab and Abihu died before their father did; they had no sons. Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

2 Chronicles 26:18

They confronted King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not proper for you, Uzziah, to offer incense to the Lord. That is the responsibility of the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have disobeyed and the Lord God will not honor you!”

Ezra 2:62

They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but did not find them. They were therefore excluded from the priesthood.

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 16:40

It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company – just as the Lord had spoken by the authority of Moses.