Numbers 16:46 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Take a censer. — Better, the censer. The reference appears to be to the golden censer of the high priest. Incense was an emblem of prayer, and a figure of the intercession and mediation of Christ. (See Psalms 141:2; Revelation 8:3-4.)

And go quickly. — Or, and carry it quickly.

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Numbers 16:46

46 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.