Numbers 16:27-39

²⁷And they stood aloof from the tent of Core round about; and Dathan and Abiron went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store.

²⁸And Moses said, Hereby shall you° know that the Lord has sent me to perform all these works, that I have not done them of myself.

²⁹If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

³⁰But if the Lord shall show by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then you° shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.

³¹And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clave asunder beneath them.

³²And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle.

³³And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

³⁴And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

³⁵And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

³⁶And the Lord said to Moses,

³⁷and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, Take up the brazen censers out of the midst of the men that have been burnt, and scatter the strange fire yonder, for they have sanctified the censers

³⁸of these sinners against their own souls, and do you make them beaten plates a covering to the altar, because they were brought before the Lord and hallowed; and they became a sign to the children of Israel.

³⁹And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest took the brazen censers, which the men who had been burnt brought near, and they put them as a covering on the altar: