Numbers 16:38 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

These sinners against their own souls - That is, “against their own lives.” By their sin they had brought destruction upon themselves.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֵ֡ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
מַחְתּוֹת֩	mach.tOt	[the] censers of	H4289 →
הַֽחַטָּאִ֨ים	ha.cha.ta.'Im	the sinners	H2400 →
הָאֵ֜לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
בְּנַפְשֹׁתָ֗ם	be.naf.sho.Tam	by lives their	H5315 →
וְעָשׂ֨וּ	ve.'a.Su	and people will make	H6213 →
אֹתָ֜ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
רִקֻּעֵ֤י	ri.ku.'Ei	beaten out of	H7555 →
פַחִים֙	fa.Chim	thin plates	H6341 →
צִפּ֣וּי	tzi.Pui	overlay	H6826 →
לַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ	la.miz.Be.ach	for the altar	H4196 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
הִקְרִיבֻ֥ם	hik.ri.Vum	they brought near them	H7126 →
לִפְנֵֽי־	lif.nei-	<to> before	H6440 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וַיִּקְדָּ֑שׁוּ	vai.yik.Da.shu	and they became holy	H6942 →
וְיִֽהְי֥וּ	ve.yih.Yu	and they may become	H1961 →
לְא֖וֹת	le.'ot	<into> a sign	H226 →
לִבְנֵ֥י	liv.Nei	for [the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Peter 2:6
if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
leads to
- Jude 1:7
  In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 17:28–30
  It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
- Deuteronomy 29:23
  All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
- Genesis 19:24–25
  Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Numbers 26:10
  And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.
Through
Proverbs 20:2
The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
leads to
- Proverbs 19:12
  A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Ecclesiastes 10:4
  If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
- Proverbs 8:36
  But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”