38 even the fire holders of these men who sinned against their own souls.+ And they must make them into thin metal plates as an overlaying for the altar,+ because they presented them before Jehovah, so that they became holy; and they should serve as a sign to the sons of Israel.’”+

8 And I must set my face against that man*+ and place him for a sign+ and for proverbial sayings,+ and I must cut him off from the midst of my people;+ and YOU people will have to know that I am Jehovah.”’+

11 Now these things went on befalling them as examples,* and they were written for a warning+ to us upon whom the ends* of the systems of things*+ have arrived.

6 and by reducing the cities Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah to ashes he condemned them,+ setting a pattern for ungodly persons* of things to come;+