Numbers [In the desert] 16:28-44

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,