Numbers 16:6 - Exposition

Take you censers. מַחְתּוֹת . Septuagint, πυρεῖα . Translated "fire-pails" in Exodus 27:3 . From the number required, they must have been either household utensils used for carrying fire, or else they must have been made in some simple fashion for the occasion. The offering of incense was proposed by Moses as a test because it was a typically priestly function, to which the gravest importance was attached (Le Exodus 10:1 ; Exodus 16:12 , Exodus 16:13 ), and because it was so very simply executed.