Numbers 16:35

The sin of Korah's company was the same as that of Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10:1-2), and their punishment was the same. -The gainsaying of Korah" is referred to as a typical sin in Judges 11.

36 40 [Heb. 17:1 15]. The fire-pans were made into a covering of the altar, as a memorial of the incident. As Numbers 16:40 shews, this section is written from the later point of view found in Numbers 16:8; Numbers 16:16. The writer who inserted them took the test of the fire-pans as proving the superiority of priests to Levites, not of Levites to laymen. (In the Heb. Bible Numbers 16:36 forms the beginning of ch. 17)