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Numbers - ch 16 v 21 - 40
- Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
- They 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?
- Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
- Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
- He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.
- So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
- Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind.
- If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.
- But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them;
- and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
- So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
- Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
- Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; for they are holy,
- even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
- Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
- to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
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