Numbers 16:16-35

¹⁶And Mosheh said to Korach, Be thou and all thy company prepared before the Lord, thou and they and Aharon tomorrow.

¹⁷And take every man his censer, and put sweet incense upon them, each man to offer before the Lord (with) his censer.

¹⁸And they took every man his censer, and set fire in it, and put sweet incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance, with Mosheh and Aharon.

¹⁹And Korach assembled with him all the company at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance. And the glory of the Lord was revealed to all the congregation.

²⁰And the Lord spake with Mosheh and to Aharon, saying:

²¹Separate yourselves from among this company, and I will consume them at once.

²²But they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and thou be wroth with all the congregation?

²³And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:

²⁴Speak with the congregation, saying: Get you up from among the tents of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram.

²⁵And Mosheh arose and went unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

²⁶And he spake with the congregation, saying: Remove now from the tents of these guilty men, and touch not anything that is theirs, lest you be stricken with all their sins.

²⁷And they gat up from the tents of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram round about; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their families.

²⁸And Mosheh said: By this shall you know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, because (I do them) not of my own will:

²⁹If these men die the death of all men, and the visitation of all men be visited upon them, the Lord hath not sent me.

³⁰But if the Lord create a creation, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, and all that is theirs, and they go down alive into Sheul, then you will know that these men have caused anger before the Lord.

³¹And it was, when he had finished to speak all these words, that the ground under them clave asunder,

³²and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and the men of their houses; and all the men of Korach, and all their substance,

³³they, and all who were theirs, went down alive into Sheul; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

³⁴And all Israel who stood round about them fled from their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us.

³⁵And fire came out from before the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who had offered the sweet incense.