Numbers 16:38 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³⁸ As for the firepans of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord, and the firepans are holy. They will be a sign to the Israelites.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ The censers of these men who have sinned against themselves and at the cost of their own lives. Let the censers be made into hammered plates for a covering of the altar [of burnt offering], for they were used in offering before the Lord and therefore they are sacred. They shall be a sign [of warning] to the Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Hammer the censers of those who sinned and lost their lives into thin plates for the altar. Since they presented them in the LORD’s presence, they had become holy. They will be a sign for the Israelites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ in the deaths of these sinners. And let him form them into plates, and affix them to the altar, because incense had been offered in them to the Lord, and they were sanctified, and so that the sons of Israel may discern in them a sign and a memorial."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ In the deaths of the sinners. And let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified: that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.

Numbers 16:38 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 2:23

Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord: ‘May God punish me and do so severely  if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his life.

Proverbs 1:18

but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

Proverbs 20:2

A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion; anyone who provokes him endangers himself.

Proverbs 8:36

but the one who misses me  harms himself; all who hate me love death.’

Jeremiah 44:7

‘So now, this is what the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such terrible harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, infant and nursing baby  from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.

Ezekiel 14:8

I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people.  Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have planned shame for your house by wiping out many peoples and sinning against your own self.

Numbers 16:37

‘Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the firepans from the burning debris, because they are holy, and scatter the fire far away.

Numbers 16:39

So the priest Eleazar took the bronze firepans that those who were burned had presented, and they were hammered into plating for the altar,

Numbers 16:40

just as the Lord commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorised person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the Lord   and become like Korah and his followers.

Numbers 17:10

The Lord told Moses, ‘Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign  for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before me, or else they will die.’

Numbers 26:10

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men.  They serve as a warning sign.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction,  on whom the ends of the ages  , have come.

2 Peter 2:6

and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah  to ashes and condemned them to extinction,  making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;