Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers,
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Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers,
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This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
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This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company;
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Numbers 16:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 10:1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
- Leviticus 16:12-13 He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. He shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the covenant, so that he will not die.
- Numbers 16:35-40 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, to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Numbers 16:46-48 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.” Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- 1 Kings 18:21-23 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word. Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men. Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Since ye will be priests, take your censers, and…
Since ye will be priests, take your censers, and act as priests, at your peril.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain This do, take you censers,.... Vessels to put incense…
This do, take you censers,.... Vessels to put incense in to offer, which was the business of the priests:
Korah, and all his company; the two hundred fifty princes that were with him, for so many we read took censers, and offered incense, Num 16:18.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Censers. It was not lawful for the Levites to…
Censers. It was not lawful for the Levites to offer incense: but they had prepared for themselves the ensigns of the priestly power, and Moses permits them to try their success. (Haydock) --- They might have brought the censers, or broad plates, bowls, or vials, (Apocalypse v. 8,) out of Egypt, where every family offers incense to their domestic gods and sacred animals. In Sicily and Greece they were also very common, as well as at Babylon; where married people always purified themselves with the smoke of incense. (Herodotus, i. 197.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Take your censers, Korah, and all his company, &c.--that…
Take your censers, Korah, and all his company, &c.--that is, since you aspire to the priesthood, then go, perform the highest function of the office--that of offering incense; and if you are accepted well. How magnanimous the conduct of Moses, who was now as willing that God's people should be priests, as formerly that they should be prophets (Num 11:29). But he warned them that they were making a perilous experiment.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. Take you censers — The burning of incense…
6. Take you censers — The burning of incense was one of the holier functions of the priesthood, because it brought the priest near to the immediate presence of God, the vail only separating between Him and the incense-offerer. Some years before this the revolters had a loud warning against rashness in offering incense, in the case of Nadab and Abihu. Lev_10:1-3, notes.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. censers] fire-pans. So R.V. in Exo_27:3. An instrument…
6. censers] fire-pans. So R.V. in Exo_27:3. An instrument for carrying burning coals. These fire-pans were not the sacred utensils of the Tabernacle, which would never be taken out of the Tabernacle precincts, but the private property of the 250 men; see on Num_16:37.
6, 7. Korah and his followers are challenged to test their claim to equality with the Levites (represented by Moses and Aaron) by undergoing a species of ordeal, viz. to perform a sacred priestly function and see what will happen.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Take you censers.—The offering of incense was the…
(6) Take you censers.—The offering of incense was the peculiar prerogative and the holiest function of the priesthood. The destruction of Nadab and Abihu ought to have served as a warning to Korah and his company not to provoke a similar exhibition of the Divine displeasure.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Take you censers. twOTjm. Septuagint, pureia . Translated "fire-pails"…
Take you censers. twOTjm. Septuagint, pureia . Translated "fire-pails" in Exo_27:3. From the number required, they must have been either household utensils used for carrying fire, or else they must have been made in some simple fashion for the occasion. The offering of incense was proposed by Moses as a test because it was a typically priestly function, to which the gravest importance was attached, (Lev_10:1 Lev_16:12, Lev_16:13) and because it was so very simply executed.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Moses continues speaking to Korah and the men who were with Korah.
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censers
containers in which to burn incense
before Yahweh
This is an idiom. AT: "in Yahweh's presence" (See: Idiom)
that man will be set apart to Yahweh
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh will set apart that man for himself" (See: Active or Passive)
You have gone too far
This represents doing more than one should. AT: "You have done more than you should" or "You assume to have more authority than you should" (See: Idiom)
translationWords
fire
incense
set apart
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 16:6 prepare your incense burners: Korah and his company…
16:6 prepare your incense burners: Korah and his company were to act like priests by burning incense (as in Lev 16:11-13); God would decide who was legitimate.
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