Numbers 16:38

16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, ¹  they must be made ²  into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 36:1

Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ³  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ⁴  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ⁵ 

[16:38]  ¹ tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.

[16:38]  ² tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. But there is no expressed subject for “and they shall make them,” and so it may be treated as a passive (“they shall [must] be made”).

[36:1]  ³ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

[36:1]  ⁴ tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

[36:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”