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Numbers 16:46

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from off: Leviticus 9:24, Leviticus 10:1, Leviticus 16:12-13; Isaiah 6:6-7; Romans 5:9-10; Hebrews 7:25-27, Hebrews 9:25-26; Revelation 8:3-5

and put: Psalms 141:2; Malachi 1:11

an atonement: Exodus 30:7-10; Leviticus 16:11-16; 1 John 2:1-2

there is wrath: Numbers 1:53, Numbers 8:19, Numbers 11:33, Numbers 18:5; Leviticus 10:6; 1 Chronicles 27:24; Psalms 106:29

the plague is begun: God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.

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