^{45 Ref} Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

^{46 Ref} And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.

^{47 Ref} And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people.

^{48 Ref} And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.