Numbers 16:45-50

Context
16:45 “Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.¹ 16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord – the plague has begun!” 16:47 So Aaron did² as Moses commanded³ and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people. 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped. 16:49 Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah. 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.

[16:45] ¹tn Heb “they fell on their faces.”

[16:47] ²tn Heb “took.”

[16:47] ³tn Or “had spoken” (NASB); NRSV “had ordered.”