So every man took his censer, and they put fire in them and laid incense upon them …: Korah and his followers did what Moses told them to do. See the comments on verses 7 and 17.

And they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron: For the Hebrew phrase rendered the entrance of the tent of meeting, see 6.10, where it is translated “the door of the tent of meeting.” For the tent of meeting, see 1.1. This significant location may have been made explicit already in verses 16-17. Yet the repetition is also significant since Moses, Aaron, Korah, and his followers were all about to appear “before the LORD.”

Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .