33. So they went down alive to the world of the dead, with their possessions. The earth closed over them, and they vanished.
34. All the people of Israel who were there fled when they heard their cry. They shouted, “Run! The earth might swallow us too!”
35. Then the Lord sent a fire that blazed out and burnt up the 250 men who had presented the incense.
36. Then the Lord said to Moses,
37. “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the bronze firepans from the remains of the men who have been burnt, and scatter the coals from the firepans somewhere else, because the firepans are holy.