45. “Move away from these people so that I can destroy them now.” So Moses and Aaron bowed with their faces to the ground.
46. Then Moses said to Aaron, “Get your bronze pan and some fire from the altar. Then put incense in it. Hurry to the people and do the things that will make them pure. The Lord is angry with them. The trouble has already started.”
47-48. So Aaron got the incense and the fire, and he ran to the middle of the people. But the sickness had already started among them. So Aaron stood between the dead and those who were still alive. He did what Moses said to remove their sin, and the sickness stopped there.
49. But 14,700 people died from that sickness—and that is not counting the people who died because of Korah.
50. So the terrible sickness was stopped, and Aaron went back to Moses at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.