Numbers 16:38

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.

Cross-reference

Numbers 16:40 Historical context

Numbers 16:40 explains that the censers become a memorial warning against unauthorized incense—the direct outcome of the command here.

Numbers 26:10 recounts the same event—the fire devouring the 250 men with censers—showing they became a sign as stated here.

Numbers 17:10 preserves Aaron's rod as a token against rebels, just as these censers become a sign—both memorials of divine judgment.

Proverbs 8:36 says 'he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul'—almost identical phrasing to the 'sinners against their own souls' here.

Proverbs 20:2 states that provoking a king 'sinneth against his own soul', directly paralleling the same idiom used here for the rebels.

Habakkuk 2:10 says 'thou hast sinned against thy soul', directly echoing the phrase 'sinners against their own souls' used here.

In 1 Corinthians 10:11, Paul says these events were written as examples for us — directly applying the warning from Korah's rebellion.

Exodus 27:2 Historical context

Exodus 27:2 describes the altar's horns — the censers from Numbers 16:38 were hammered into plates to cover this same altar.