Numbers 16:6
What does Numbers 16:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 16:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
KJV
King James Version · 1611This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for burning perfumes;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862This do: take to yourselves censers, Korah, and all his company,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core, and all thy company.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his band,
Context
v.5and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near unto him.
v.6This passage
v.7and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before Jehovah to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom Jehovah doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said, How long go ye limping between the two sides? if Jehovah be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
- Numbers 16:35
And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
- Numbers 16:46
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take thy censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun.
- Leviticus 16:12
And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
- Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.
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