The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
The censers of these sinners against their own souls,.... Who by burning incense in them sinned, and by sinning hurt and ruined their souls:
let them make them broad plates for a covering of the…
Barnes' Notes
These sinners against their own souls - That is, “against their own lives.” By their sin they had brought destruction upon themselves.
We must now look back to the door of the tabernacle, where we left the pretenders to the priesthood with their censers in their hands ready to offer incense; and here we find,
I. Vengeance taken on…
Cambridge Bible
(om. even) the fire-pans of these sinners at the cost of their lives R.V. marg. is an explanation of the R.V. But the latter is grammatically doubtful. LXX. has ὅτι ἡγίασαν τὰ πυρεῖα κ. τ. λ.…
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