Numbers 16:6
This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
Numbers 16:6 in other translations
| BSB | You, Korah, and all your followers are to do as follows: Take censers, |
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| WEB | Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers, |
| ASV | This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company; |
| YLT | This do: take to yourselves censers, Korah, and all his company, |
| DARBY | This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his band, |
| BBE | So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for burning perfumes; |
| Webster | This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company; |
What does Numbers 16:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 16:5-11
5-11. he spake unto Korah and unto all his company--They were first addressed, not only because they were a party headed by his own cousin and Moses might hope to have more influence in that quarter, but because they were stationed near the tabernacle; and especially because an expostulation was the more weighty coming from him who was a Levite himself, and who was excluded along with his family from the priesthood…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 16:1-11
Pride and ambition occasion a great deal of mischief both in churches and states. The rebels quarrel with the settlement of the priesthood upon Aaron and his family. Small reason they had to boast of the people's purity, or of God's favour, as the people had been so often and so lately polluted with sin, and were now under the marks of God's displeasure. They unjustly charge Moses and Aaron with taking honour to…
Numbers 16:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 16:6
- Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
- Numbers 16:35-40
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. 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. …
- Leviticus 16:12-13
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
- 1 Kings 18:21-23
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
- Numbers 16:46-48
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
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Context
- Numbers 16:5
And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
- Numbers 16:6
This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
- Numbers 16:7
And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the Lord to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
Numbers 16:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Haced esto: tomaos incensarios, Coré y todo su séquito: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Faites ceci: Prenez des encensoirs, Coré et toute son assemblée; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dieses tut: Nehmet euch Räucherpfannen, Korah und seine ganze Rotte, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hoc igitur facite: tollat unusquisque thuribula sua, tu Core, et omne concilium tuum: |