38 As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a ^gsign to the people of Israel.”

6 Now these things took place as examples ^cfor us, that we might not desire evil ^das they did.

6 if by ^vturning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;¹