Numbers 16:37–38

16:37 “Tell50 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up51 the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire52 at a distance. 16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives,53 they must be made54 into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

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50	tn Heb “say to.”
51	tn The verb is the jussive with a vav (ו) coming after the imperative; it may be subordinated to form a purpose clause (“that he may pick up”) or the object of the imperative.
52	tn The Hebrew text just has “fire,” but it would be hard to conceive of this action apart from the idea of coals of fire.
53	tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.
54	tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. But there is no expressed subject for “and they shall make them,” and so it may be treated as a passive (“they shall [must] be made”).