Skip to content

Bible Verses About Incense

33 verses · 35 aspects

Key Bible Verses

Filter by Book
  1. And the Lord sayd vnto Moses, Take vnto thee these spices, pure myrrhe and cleare gumme and galbanum, these odours with pure frankincense, of eche like weight:

  2. Then thou shalt make of them perfume composed after the arte of the apothecarie, mingled together, pure and holy.

  3. And thou shalt beate it to pouder, and shalt put of it before the Arke of the Testimonie in the Tabernacle of ye Cogregatio, where I wil make appointmet with thee: it shalbe vnto you most holy.

  4. And ye shall not make vnto you any composition like this perfume, which thou shalt make: it shalbe vnto thee holy for the Lord.

  5. Whosoeuer shall make like vnto that to smelll thereto, euen he shalbe cut off from his people.

  6. And Moses said vnto Korah, Bee thou and al thy companie before the Lord: both thou, they, and Aaron to morowe:

  7. And take euery man his censor, and put incense in them, and bring ye euery man his censor before the Lord, two hundreth and fiftie censors: thou also and Aaron, euery one his censor.

  8. So they tooke euery man his censor, and put fire in them, and laide incense thereon, and stoode in the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation with Moses and Aaron.

  9. And Korah gathered all the multitude against them vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: then the glorie of the Lord appeared vnto all the Congregation.

  10. And the Lord spake vnto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  11. Separate your selues from among this Cogregation, that I may consume them at once.

  12. And they fell vpon their faces and saide, O God the God of the spirits, of all fleshe, hath not one man onely sinned, and wilt thou bee wroth with all the Congregation?

  13. And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

  14. Speake vnto the Congregation and say, Get you away from about the Tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.

  15. Then Moses rose vp, and went vnto Dathan and Abiram, and the Elders of Israel followed him.

  16. And he spake vnto the Congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tentes of these wicked men, and touche nothing of theirs, lest ye perish in all their sinnes.

  17. So they gate them away from the Tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram on euerie side: and Dathan, and Abiram came out and stood in the doore of their tentes with their wiues, and their sonnes, and their little children.

  18. And Moses saide, Hereby yee shall knowe that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works: for I haue not done them of mine owne minde.

  19. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, the Lord hath not sent me.

  20. But if the Lord make a newe thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallowe them vp with all that they haue, and they goe downe quicke into ye pit, then ye shall vnderstand that these men haue prouoked the Lord.

  21. And assoone as he had made an ende of speaking all these wordes, euen the ground claue asunder that was vnder them,

  22. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, with their families, and all the men that were with Korah, and all their goods.

  23. So they and all that they had, went down aliue into the pit, and the earth couered them: so they perished from among the Congregation.

  24. And all Israel that were about them, fled at the crie of them: for they said, Let vs flee, least the earth swalow vs vp.

  25. But there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundreth and fiftie men that offred the incense.