Numbers [In the desert] 16:24-50

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.”

³⁹Eleazar Help of God the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

⁴⁰to be a memorial to the children of Israel God prevails, to the end that no stranger, who is not of the offspring of Aaron Light-bringer, would come near to burn incense before Adonai , that he be not as Korach Bald one, Frost, and as his company; as Adonai spoke to him by Moses Drawn out.

⁴¹But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel God prevails murmured against Moses Drawn out and against Aaron Light-bringer, saying, “You have killed Adonai ’s people!”

⁴²When the congregation was assembled against Moses Drawn out and against Aaron Light-bringer, They looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and the kavod Yahweh ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing· appeared.

⁴³Moses Drawn out and Aaron Light-bringer came to the front of the Tent of Meeting. (4)

⁴⁴Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

⁴⁵“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

⁴⁶Moses Drawn out said to Aaron Light-bringer, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Adonai ! The plague has begun.”

⁴⁷Aaron Light-bringer did as Moses Drawn out said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. Behold, the plague has begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

⁴⁸He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

⁴⁹Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korach Bald one, Frost.

⁵⁰Aaron Light-bringer teshuvah ·completely returned· to Moses Drawn out to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.