Numbers 16:46 (KJV)

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And Moses said unto Aaron Take a censer and put fire therein from off the altar and put on incense and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the LORD the plague is begun

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from off. Le 9:24 Le 10:1 Le 16:12 Le 16:13 Isa 6:6 Isa 6:7 Ro 5:9 Ro 5:10 Heb 7:25-27 Heb 9:25 Heb 9:26 Re 8:3-5

and put. Ps 141:2 Mal 1:11

an atonement. Ex 30:7-10 Le 16:11-16 1Jo 2:1 1Jo 2:2

there is wrath. Nu 1:53 Nu 8:19 Nu 11:33 Nu 18:5 Le 10:6 1Ch 27:24 Ps 106:29

the plague is begun.God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.

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