Numbers 16:47
Good News Translation
Aaron obeyed, took his fire pan and ran into the middle of the assembled people. When he saw that the plague had already begun, he put the incense on the coals and performed the ritual of purification for the people.

New Revised Standard Version
So Aaron took it as Moses had ordered, and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

New American Bible
Aaron took his censer just as Moses directed and ran in among the assembly, where the plague had already begun among the people. Then he offered the incense and made atonement for the people,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:

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When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:

and ran

Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

Romans 12:21 Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.

and behold

Psalm 106:29 And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

and he put

Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.

Deuteronomy 33:10,11 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar. . . .

Isaiah 53:10-12 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand. . . .

Context
Murmuring and Plague
46Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth. 47When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:48And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.…
Cross References
Numbers 16:48
And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.

Numbers 25:6
And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.

Numbers 25:13
And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.

Numbers 16:46
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