Numbers [In the desert] 16:13-38

¹³Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us? (2)

¹⁴Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

¹⁵Moses Drawn out was very angry, and said to Adonai , “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

¹⁶Moses Drawn out said to Korach Bald one, Frost, “You and all your company go before Adonai , you, and they, and Aaron Light-bringer, tomorrow.

¹⁷Each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Adonai his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron Light-bringer, each his censer.”

¹⁸They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses Drawn out and Aaron Light-bringer.

¹⁹Korach Bald one, Frost assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. The kavod Yahweh ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing· appeared to all the congregation. (3)

²⁰Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out and to Aaron Light-bringer, saying,

²¹“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

²²They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

²³Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

²⁴“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korach Bald one, Frost, Dathan, and Abiram!’”

²⁵Moses Drawn out rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel God prevails followed him.

²⁶He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

²⁷So they went away from the tent of Korach Bald one, Frost, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

²⁸Moses Drawn out said, “By this you shall know that Adonai has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

²⁹If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Adonai has not sent me.

³⁰But if Adonai makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol ·Place of the dead·; then you shall understand that these men have despised Adonai .”

³¹As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.

³²The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korach Bald one, Frost’s men, and all their goods.

³³So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol ·Place of the dead·. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

³⁴All Israel God prevails that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

³⁵Fire came out from Adonai , and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

³⁶Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

³⁷“Speak to Eleazar Help of God the son of Aaron Light-bringer the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,

³⁸even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Adonai . Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel God prevails.”