Numbers 16:9-29

⁹The God of us Israelis has chosen all of you to be close to him in order that you can work for him at his Sacred Tent and serve the people. ◄Is that unimportant/Does that mean nothing► to you RHQ?

¹⁰Yahweh has brought you, Korah, and your fellow descendants of Levi, near to himself. Now are you demanding to become priests also?

¹¹It is really Yahweh against whom you and your fellow descendants of Levi are rebelling. Aaron is not the one about whom you are really complaining RHQ.”

¹²Then Moses/I summoned Dathan and Abiram, but they refused to come. They sent a message saying, “We will not come to you!

¹³You brought us out of Egypt, which was a very fertile IDM land, in order to cause us to die here in this desert. That was bad. But now you are also trying to boss us RHQ, and that is worse.

¹⁴You have not given us a new land to live in, a land that has good fields and vineyards. You are only trying to RHQ trick these people. So we will not come to you.”

¹⁵Then Moses/I became very angry. He/I said to Yahweh, “Do not accept the grain offerings that they have brought. I have not taken anything from them, not even one donkey, and I have never done anything wrong to them, so they have no reason to complain about me.”

¹⁶Then Moses/I said to Korah, “You and all those who are with you must come here tomorrow and stand in front of Yahweh. Aaron will also be here.

¹⁷You and all the 250 men who are with you must each take a pan in which to burn incense, and put incense in it, to burn it to be an offering to Yahweh. Aaron will do the same thing.”

¹⁸So the next day each of those men got a pan to burn incense. They put in it incense and hot coals to light it, and then they all stood at the entrance of the Sacred Tent with Aaron and Moses/me.

¹⁹Then Korah summoned all the people who supported him and who were against Moses/me, and they also gathered at the entrance of the tent. Then the glory of Yahweh appeared to all of them/us,

²⁰and Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,

²¹“Get away from all these people, in order that I can get rid of them immediately!”

²²But Aaron and Moses/I prostrated themselves/ourselves on the ground. We pleaded with Yahweh, saying, “God, you are the one who caused all these people to live MTY. Only one of these men has sinned; so, ◄is it right for you to be angry with all the people?/it is not right for you to be angry with all the people!► RHQ”

²³Yahweh said to Moses/me,

²⁴“ Okay, but tell all the people to get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”

²⁵So Moses/I stood up and went to the tents of Dathan and Abiram. The Israeli leaders followed him/me.

²⁶He/I told the people, “Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that belongs to them! If you touch anything, you will die because of their sins!”

²⁷So all the people moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram came out of their tents with their wives and children and babies, and stood at the entrances of their tents.

²⁸Then Moses/I said, “I was not the one who decided to do all these things that I have done. It was Yahweh who chose me and sent me to do them. And now he will prove that to you.

²⁹If these men die in a normal way, then it will be clear that Yahweh did not choose me.