⁴⁶ And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for ^(A)wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.”

^19 (A)And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and ^(B)to make atonement for the people of Israel, ^(C)that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”

⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ And he ^(A)touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

⁶ And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, ^(A)“Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and ^(B)wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the Lord has kindled.

³ And another angel came and stood ^(A)at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with ^(B)the prayers of all the saints on ^(C)the golden altar before the throne, ⁴ and ^(D)the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. ⁵ Then the angel took the censer and ^(E)filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and ^(F)there were peals of ^(G)thunder, rumblings,^[a] flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

²⁴ Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but ^(A)did not finish. Yet ^(B)wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the chronicles of King David.

⁵ And you shall ^(A)keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, ^(B)that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.

^33 (A)While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and ^(B)the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague.

²⁵ Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as ^(A)the high priest enters ^(B)the holy places every year with blood not his own, ²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, ^(C)he has appeared ^(D)once for all ^(E)at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.