🔢WEB · Numbers 16:35
What does Numbers 16:35 mean?
"Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense."
— Numbers 16:35 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,
even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
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