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Numbers 16:27-48

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27So they gate them away from the Tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram on euerie side: and Dathan, and Abiram came out and stood in the doore of their tentes with their wiues, and their sonnes, and their little children.
28And Moses saide, Hereby yee shall knowe that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works: for I haue not done them of mine owne minde.
29If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, the Lord hath not sent me.
30But if the Lord make a newe thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallowe them vp with all that they haue, and they goe downe quicke into ye pit, then ye shall vnderstand that these men haue prouoked the Lord.
31And assoone as he had made an ende of speaking all these wordes, euen the ground claue asunder that was vnder them,
32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, with their families, and all the men that were with Korah, and all their goods.
33So they and all that they had, went down aliue into the pit, and the earth couered them: so they perished from among the Congregation.
34And all Israel that were about them, fled at the crie of them: for they said, Let vs flee, least the earth swalow vs vp.
35But there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundreth and fiftie men that offred the incense.
36And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
37Speake vnto Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the Priest, that he take vp the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire beyond the altar: for they are halowed,
38The censers, I say, of these sinners, that destroyed themselues: and let them make of them broade plates for a couering of the Altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they shalbe holy, and they shall be a signe vnto the children of Israel.
39Then Eleazar the Priest tooke the brasen censers, which they, that were burnt, had offred, and made broade plates of them for a couering of the Altar.
40It is a remembrance vnto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seede of Aaron, come neere to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not like Korah and his company, as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.
41But on the morowe all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye haue killed the people of the Lord.
42And when the Congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, then they turned their faces toward the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and beholde, the cloude couered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
43Then Moses and Aaron were come before the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
44And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
45Get you vp from among this Congregation: for I wil consume them quickly: then they fell vpon their faces.
46And Moses said vnto Aaron, Take the censer and put fire therein of the Altar, and put therein incense, and goe quickly vnto the Congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord: the plague is begunne.
47Then Aaron tooke as Moses commanded him, and ranne into the middes of the Congregation, and beholde, the plague was begun among the people, and hee put in incense, and made an atonement for the people.
48And when hee stoode betweene the dead, and them that were aliue, the plague was stayed.

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