33. They and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead); and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
34. And all Israel who were round about them fled at their cry, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
35. And fire came forth from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered the incense.
36. And the Lord said to Moses,
37. Speak to Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire at a distance. For the censers are hallowed–
38. The censers of these men who have sinned against themselves and at the cost of their own lives. Let the censers be made into hammered plates for a covering of the altar [of burnt offering], for they were used in offering before the Lord and therefore they are sacred. They shall be a sign [of warning] to the Israelites.