Numbers 16:46

make atonement for them The offering of incense was an unusual way of making atonement; the shedding of blood was generally required. But since the sin had been the burning of incense, the means for its atonement was similar. Cf. the bronze serpent (Numbers 21:6-9). A converse application of the same principle is seen in the laws of retaliation -an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."

there is wrath gone out lit. the wrath has gone out. The divine wrath is thought of almost as an emanation; it has, so to speak, an existence independent of Jehovah, as soon as it proceeds from Him. Cf. 2 Chronicles 19:2, where, however, -wrath" is without the article.