34 Then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up also!”

35 And ^aa fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.  ‡

37 “Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, to pick up the censers out of the blaze, for ^athey are holy, and scatter the fire some distance away.  ‡

38 The censers of ^athese men who sinned against their own souls, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar. Because they presented them before the Lord, therefore they are holy; ^band they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”  ‡