In Context

33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

35 And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are holy;

38 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are holy: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

Numbers 16:36 in Other Translations