35. Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
36. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
37. “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,
38. even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
39. Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,