Numbers 16:35

35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Numbers 16:35 in Other Translations

KJV
35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
ESV
35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.
NLT
35 Then fire blazed forth from the LORD and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.
MSG
35 Then God sent lightning. The fire cremated the 250 men who were offering the incense.
CSB
35 Fire also came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were presenting the incense.

Numbers 16:35 In-Context

33 They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.
34 At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”
35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
36 The LORD said to Moses,
37 “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy—

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Numbers 11:1-3; Numbers 26:10; Revelation 11:5
  • 2. S Leviticus 10:2
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