33. They went down alive to Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
34. All Israel who were around them fled at their cry, because they said, “Lest the land swallow us up!”
35. And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense.
36. And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
37. “Say to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ‘Take out the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside.
38. The censers of these who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them before Yahweh, they are holy; and they will be a sign for the Israelites.’ ”
39. Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly as plating for the altar;