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Selected Verse: Numbers 16:38 - Strong Concordance

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Nu 16:38 Strong Concordance The censers [04289] of these sinners [02400] against their own souls [05315], let them make [06213] them broad [07555] plates [06341] for a covering [06826] of the altar [04196]: for they offered [07126] them before [06440] the LORD [03068], therefore they are hallowed [06942]: and they shall be a sign [0226] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478].
  King James The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
These sinners against their own souls - That is, "against their own lives." By their sin they had brought destruction upon themselves.
 
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1 And thou shalt make [06213] an altar [04196] of shittim [07848] wood [06086], five [02568] cubits [0520] long [0753], and five [02568] cubits [0520] broad [07341]; the altar [04196] shall be foursquare [07251]: and the height [06967] thereof shall be three [07969] cubits [0520].
2 And thou shalt make [06213] the horns [07161] of it upon the four [0702] corners [06438] thereof: his horns [07161] shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay [06823] it with brass [05178].