Numbers 16:46 (BSB)

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

From Numbers 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 16:46

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 16:46: 46. And Moses said unto Aaron. The expiation of so great a sin did not indeed depend on the incense-offering, nor are we to imagine that God is appeased by the savor of frankincense; but thus was a symbol set before this grosshearted people, whereby they might be alike aroused to repentance and faith; for however insensible they might be in their rebellion, yet the...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 16:41-50: Here is, I. A new rebellion raised the very next day against Moses and Aaron. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and wonder, O earth! Was there ever such an instance of the incurable corruption of sinners? On the morrow (Num 16:41) the body of the people mutinied. 1. Though they were so lately terrified by the sight of the punishment of the rebels.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 16:46: And Aaron took as Moses commanded,.... A censer with fire in it from the altar, and also incense: and ran into the midst of the congregation: though a man in years and in so high an office, and had been so ill used by the people; yet was not only so ready to obey the divine command, but so eager to serve this ungrateful people...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 16:46: And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. (r) For it was not lawful to take any other fire, but of the altar of burnt offering, .