Numbers 16:47

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So Aaron took it as Moses had ordered and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense and made atonement for the people.

Cross References

Psalm 106:29

they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Numbers 16:46

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire on it from the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them. For wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.”

Numbers 16:48

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

Numbers 25:13

It shall be for him and for his descendants after him a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.’ ”

Matthew 5:44

But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Romans 12:21

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.