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Moses said to Aaron, Take they censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.
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An Urgent Intervention
Commentators note the extreme urgency of the situation. Moses commands Aaron to act "quickly" because God's wrath was already active as a plague. The specific instruments—what scholars identify as the high priest's special censer and fire from the holy altar—were used to make a swift atonement. This was a desperate, last-minute intervention to save the people.
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18th Century
Theologian
A censer—Rather, the censer. That is, that of the high priest which was used by him on the great Day of Atonement: compare Leviticus 16:12;[…
19th Century
Bishop
Take a censer.— Better, the censer. The reference appears to be to the golden censer of the high priest. Incense…
16th Century
And Moses said to Aaron. The expiation of so great a sin did not indeed depend on the incense-offering, nor are we to imagine that God is …
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17th Century
Pastor
And Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer Which lay in the tabernacle:
and put fire therein from o…
Minister
The gaping earth had hardly closed before the same sins are committed again, and all these warnings are disregarded. They called the rebels the peo…