²⁹ for our “God is a consuming fire.”^[a](A)

⁴⁶ Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer^(A) and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly^(B) to make atonement^(C) for them. Wrath has come out from the Lord;^(D) the plague^(E) has started.”

³⁵ And fire came out from the Lord^(A) and consumed^(B) the 250 men who were offering the incense.

³⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ³⁷ “Tell Eleazar^(C) son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers^(D) from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy— ³⁸ the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives.^(E) Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar,^(F) for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign^(G) to the Israelites.”

³⁹ So Eleazar the priest^(H) collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death,^(I) and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar, ⁴⁰ as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense^(J) before the Lord,^(K) or he would become like Korah and his followers.^(L)