Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
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Gill's Exposition
And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer,.... Which lay in the tabernacle:
and put fire therein from off the altar; the altar of burnt offering, from whence fire only was to be taken for burning…
Barnes' Notes
They fell upon their faces - In intercession for the people; compare Num 16:22; Num 14:5.
Here is, I. A new rebellion raised the very next day against Moses and Aaron. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and wonder, O earth! Was there ever such an instance of the incurable corruption of…
The people murmured at the death of Korah's company, and were punished by a plague, which ceased when Aaron made atonement with incense.
In contrast to the action of the princes, the offering of…
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