🔢WEB · Numbers 16:36
What does Numbers 16:36 mean?
"Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,"
— Numbers 16:36 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.”
Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
Explanation
This verse is a brief introductory formula: "Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying." On its own it doesn't convey a complete thought — it simply announces that God is about to give Moses a specific instruction. This kind of ph
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