Numbers 16:3-33

³Who gathered themselues together against Moses, and against Aaron, and sayde vnto them, Ye take too much vpon you, seeing all the Congregation is holie, euery one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherfore then lift ye your selues aboue the Congregation of the Lord?

⁴But when Moses heard it, hee fell vpon his face,

⁵And spake to Korah and vnto all his companie, saying, To morow the Lord will shew who is his, and who is holy, and who ought to approche neere vnto him: and whom he hath chosen, hee will cause to come neere to him.

⁶This doe therefore, Take you censers, both Korah, and all his companie,

⁷And put fire therein, and put incense in the before the Lord to morowe: and the man whome the Lord doeth chuse, the same shalbe holie: ye take too much vpon you, ye sonnes of Leui.

⁸Againe Moses saide vnto Korah, Heare, I pray you, ye sonnes of Leui.

⁹Seemeth it a small thing vnto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel, to take you neere to himselfe, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the Congregation and to minister vnto them?

¹⁰He hath also taken thee to him, and all thy brethren the sonnes of Leui with thee, and seeke ye the office of the Priest also?

¹¹For which cause, thou, and all thy companie are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmure against him?

¹²And Moses sent to call Dathan, and Abiram the sonnes of Eliab: who answered, We will not come vp.

¹³Is it a small thing that thou hast brought vs out of a lande that floweth with milke and honie, to kill vs in the wildernesse, except thou make thy selfe lord and ruler ouer vs also?

¹⁴Also thou hast not brought vs vnto a land that floweth with milke and honie, neither giuen vs inheritance of fieldes and vineyardes: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come vp.

¹⁵Then Moses waxed verie angry, and saide vnto the Lord, Looke not vnto their offring: I haue not taken so much as an asse from them, neither haue I hurt any of them.

¹⁶And Moses said vnto Korah, Bee thou and al thy companie before the Lord: both thou, they, and Aaron to morowe:

¹⁷And take euery man his censor, and put incense in them, and bring ye euery man his censor before the Lord, two hundreth and fiftie censors: thou also and Aaron, euery one his censor.

¹⁸So they tooke euery man his censor, and put fire in them, and laide incense thereon, and stoode in the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation with Moses and Aaron.

¹⁹And Korah gathered all the multitude against them vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: then the glorie of the Lord appeared vnto all the Congregation.

²⁰And the Lord spake vnto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

²¹Separate your selues from among this Cogregation, that I may consume them at once.

²²And they fell vpon their faces and saide, O God the God of the spirits, of all fleshe, hath not one man onely sinned, and wilt thou bee wroth with all the Congregation?

²³And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

²⁴Speake vnto the Congregation and say, Get you away from about the Tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.

²⁵Then Moses rose vp, and went vnto Dathan and Abiram, and the Elders of Israel followed him.

²⁶And he spake vnto the Congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tentes of these wicked men, and touche nothing of theirs, lest ye perish in all their sinnes.

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.