Numbers 16:39

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

2 Chronicles 26:18

they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to make offering to the Lord, but for the priests the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to make offering. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.”

Ezra 2:62

These looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they were not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

Numbers 16:38

For the censers of these sinners have become holy at the cost of their lives. Make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 16:40

a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, shall approach to offer incense before the Lord, so as not to become like Korah and his congregation, just as the Lord had said to him through Moses.