Numbers 16:6

6 You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers

Numbers 16:6 in Other Translations

6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;

6 Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company;

6 Korah, you and all your followers must prepare your incense burners.

6 "Now, Korah, here's what I want you, you and your gang, to do: Tomorrow, take censers.

6 Korah, you and all your followers are to do this: take firepans, and tomorrow

Numbers 16:6 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:6

This do, take you censers
Vessels to put incense in to offer, which was the business of the priests:

Korah, and all his company;
the two hundred fifty princes that were with him, for so many we read took censers, and offered incense, ( Numbers 16:18 Numbers 16:35 ) .

Numbers 16:6 In-Context

4 When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

5 Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.

6 You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers

7 and tomorrow put burning coals and incense in them before the LORD. The man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!”

8 Moses also said to Korah, “Now listen, you Levites!

Cross References

• 1. ver 7,16
• 2. S Leviticus 10:1; Revelation 8:3