Numbers 16:48
“And he stood betweene the dead and the liuing, and the plague was stayed.”
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Numbers 16:48 Context
46¶ And Moses said vnto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the Altar, and put on incense, and goe quickly vnto the Congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun. 47And Aaron tooke as Moses commanded, and ranne into the midst of the Congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. 48And he stood betweene the dead and the liuing, and the plague was stayed. 49Now they that died in the plague, were foureteene thousand and seuen hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. 50And Aaron returned vnto Moses, vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation; and the plague was stayed.
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And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- King James Version
He took his stand between the dead and the living, so that the plague was checked.
- New American Standard Version (1995)