Numbers 16:37
16:37 “Tell 1 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up 2 the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire 3 at a distance.
Numbers 16:39
16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.
1 tn Heb “say to.”
2 tn The verb is the jussive with a vav (ו) coming after the imperative; it may be subordinated to form a purpose clause (“that he may pick up”) or the object of the imperative.
3 tn The Hebrew text just has “fire,” but it would be hard to conceive of this action apart from the idea of coals of fire.