Numbers 16:35

Amplified Bible

Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

King James Version
And there came out a fire from the Lord , and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Lexham English Bible
And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense.

New Century Version
Then a fire came down from the Lord and destroyed the two hundred fifty men who had presented the incense.

New English Translation
Then a fire went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

New American Standard Bible
Fire also came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But there came out a fire from the Lorde, and consumed the two hundreth and fiftie men that offred the incense.

Legacy Standard Bible
Fire also came forth from Yahweh and consumed the 250 men who were bringing near the incense.

Contemporary English Version
Suddenly the Lord sent a fire that burned up the two hundred fifty men who had offered incense to him.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then fire came out from Adonai and destroyed the 250 men who had offered the incense.

Darby Translation
And there came out a fire from Jehovah, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had presented incense.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then a fire came from the Lord and destroyed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

English Standard Version
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.

George Lamsa Translation
And there came out a fire from before the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Good News Translation
Then the Lord sent a fire that blazed out and burned up the 250 men who had presented the incense.

Christian Standard Bible®
Fire also came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were presenting the incense.

Literal Translation
And fire came forth from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer the fyre came out fro the LORDE, and consumed the two hundreth and fyftye men, that offred the incense.

American Standard Version
And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

Bible in Basic English
Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there came out a fire from the Lorde, and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

King James Version (1611)
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

English Revised Version
And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

Berean Standard Bible
And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also fier yede out fro the Lord, and killide tweyn hundrid and fifti men that offriden encense.

Young's Literal Translation
and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume.

Update Bible Version
And fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

World English Bible
Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

New King James Version
And a fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

New Living Translation
Then fire blazed forth from the Lord and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.

New Life Bible
Then fire came from the Lord and destroyed the 250 men who had brought the special perfume.

New Revised Standard
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Fire also came forth, from Yahweh, - and consumed the two hundred and fifty men, who offered the incense.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

Revised Standard Version
And fire came forth from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering the incense.

THE MESSAGE
Then God sent lightning. The fire cremated the 250 men who were offering the incense.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

Contextual Overview

³⁵Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.³⁶Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁷"Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, that he is to pick up the censers from the midst of the blaze for they are holy; and you scatter the burning coals abroad. ³⁸"As for the censers of these people who have sinned at the cost of their lives, have the censers made into hammered sheets as a plating for the altar [of burnt offering], for they were presented before the LORD and they are sacred. They shall be a [warning] sign to the sons of Israel." ³⁹So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the Levites who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out [into broad sheets] as a plating for the [bronze] altar [of burnt offering], ⁴⁰as a reminder to the sons of Israel so that no layman—that is, one who is not of the descendants of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD; so that he will not become like Korah and as his company—just as the LORD had said to him through Moses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And there: Numbers 11:1, Numbers 26:10, Leviticus 10:2, Psalms 106:18

two hundred: Numbers 16:2, Numbers 16:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:4 - had Exodus 29:9 - the priest's Leviticus 6:10 - consumed Numbers 3:10 - and the stranger Numbers 16:6 - General Numbers 16:48 - General Deuteronomy 32:22 - For a fire 2 Kings 1:10 - let fire 1 Chronicles 13:10 - there he died 1 Chronicles 23:13 - to burn incense 2 Chronicles 26:16 - to burn 2 Chronicles 29:11 - burn incense Job 38:35 - Canst Psalms 18:8 - went Psalms 29:7 - flames Psalms 50:3 - a fire Psalms 141:2 - as incense Psalms 148:8 - Fire Isaiah 10:17 - for a flame Ezekiel 8:11 - every Amos 7:4 - called Hebrews 5:4 - General Hebrews 10:27 - fiery Hebrews 12:29 - General Revelation 13:13 - he maketh Revelation 20:9 - and fire

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there came out a fire from the Lord,.... Flashes of lightning from the cloud in which he was:

and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense; not that it reduced them to ashes, but took away their lives, struck them dead at once, in like manner as Nadab and Abihu were, who though said to be devoured by the fire, yet their bodies remained, Leviticus 10:2; and is often the case of persons killed by lightning; though Josephus a thinks they were so consumed as that their bodies were no more seen, and who is express for it that Korah perished with them in this manner; which is not improbable, since he took his censer and offered incense with them, and was the ringleader of them, and the person that contended with Aaron for the priesthood, which was to be determined in this way; and though he is not mentioned it may be concluded, as Aben Ezra observes, by an argument from the lesser to the greater, that if the men he drew in perished, much more he himself; and the same writer observes, that in the song of the Red sea, no mention is made of the drowning of Pharaoh in it, only of his chariots and his host, and yet he himself was certainly drowned: now these men burning incense which belonged only to the priests of the Lord, were by just retaliation consumed by fire, and which made it plainly appear they were not the priests of the Lord; and the judgment on them was the more remarkable, that Moses and Aaron, who stood by them, remained unhurt. This was an emblem of the vengeance of eternal fire, of everlasting burnings, Judges 1:11.

a Antiq. l. 4. c. 3. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal references The fire came out from the sanctuary or the altar.