Numbers 16:39

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; 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 children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.

2 Chronicles 26:18

and they withstood King Uzziah, 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 are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.”

Ezra 2:62

These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

Numbers 16:38

the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives; so let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord; therefore they are holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”

Numbers 16:40

to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no one who is not a priest, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become as Korah and as his company—as the Lord said to Eleazar through Moses.