Números 16:46

46 Y dijo Moisés a Aarón: Toma el incensario, y pon en él fuego del altar, y sobre él pon incienso, y ve presto a la congregación, y reconcílialos; porque el furor ha salido de delante de la faz del SEÑOR; la mortandad ha comenzado.

Números 16:46 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:46

And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer
Which lay in the tabernacle:

and put fire therein from off the altar;
the altar of burnt offering, from whence fire only was to be taken for burning incense; and lest Aaron in his hurry should forget to take it from thence, but elsewhere, and offer strange fire as his sons had done, Moses expresses the place from whence he should take it:

and put on incense:
upon the fire, in the censer, which he was to do when he came into the camp, and not as soon as he took the fire from the altar: the censer with fire in it he carried in one hand, and the incense in the other; and when he was in the midst of the congregation, he put the incense on the fire, and burnt it, as appears from ( Numbers 16:47 ) : this was an emblem of prayer, and a figure of the intercession and mediation of Christ, ( Psalms 141:2 ) ( Revelation 8:3 Revelation 8:4 ) ;

and go quickly unto the congregation;
the case required haste:

and make an atonement for them;
which was usually done by the sacrifice of a sin or trespass offering, but now there was no time for that, and therefore incense, which was of quicker dispatch, was used for that purpose instead of it:

for there is wrath gone out from the Lord;
some token of it, some disease was inflicted, which Moses had information of from the Lord, and therefore expressly says,

the plague is begun;
a pestilence was sent among the people.

Números 16:46 In-Context

44 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

45 Apartaos de en medio de esta congregación, y los consumiré en un momento. Y ellos se echaron sobre sus rostros.

46 Y dijo Moisés a Aarón: Toma el incensario, y pon en él fuego del altar, y sobre él pon incienso, y ve presto a la congregación, y reconcílialos; porque el furor ha salido de delante de la faz del SEÑOR; la mortandad ha comenzado.

47 Entonces tomó Aarón su incensario , como Moisés dijo, y corrió en medio de la congregación; y he aquí que la mortandad había comenzado en el pueblo; y él puso incienso, y reconcilió el pueblo.

48 Y se puso entre los muertos y los vivos, y la mortandad cesó.