Numbers:16:13-41

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* Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , except thou make # thyself altogether a prince over us ? * Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey , or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards : wilt thou put out the eyes of these men ? we will not come up . * And Moses was very wroth , and said unto the LORD , Respect not thou their offering : I have not taken one ass from them , neither have I hurt one of them . * And Moses said unto Korah , Be thou and all thy company before the LORD , thou , and they , and Aaron , to morrow : * And take every man his censer , and put incense in them , and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer , two hundred and fifty censers ; thou also , and Aaron , each of you his censer . * And they took every man his censer , and put fire in them , and laid incense thereon , and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron . * And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation mow #ed #: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation . * And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron , saying , * Separate yourselves from among this congregation , that I may consume them in a moment . * And they fell upon their faces , and said , O God , the God of the spirits of all flesh , shall one man sin , and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation ? * And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the congregation , saying , Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah , Dathan , and Abiram . * And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram ; and the elders of Israel followed him . * And he spake unto the congregation , saying , Depart , I pray you , from the tents of these wicked men , and touch nothing of theirs , lest ye be consumed in all their sins chatta #ah #. * So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah , Dathan , and Abiram , on every side : and Dathan and Abiram came out , and stood in the door of their tents , and their wives , and their sons , and their little children . * And Moses said , Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works ma #aseh #; for I have not done them of mine own mind . * If these men die the common death of all men , or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the LORD hath not sent me . * But if the LORD make a new thing b @riy #ah #, and the earth open her mouth , and swallow them up , with all that appertain unto them , and they go down quick into the pit sh @#owl #; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD . * And it came to pass , as he had made an end of speaking all these words , that the ground clave asunder that was under them : * And the earth opened her mouth , and swallowed them up , and their houses , and all the men that appertained unto Korah , and all their goods . * They , and all that appertained to them , went down alive into the pit sh @#owl #, and the earth closed upon them : and they perished from among the congregation . * And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them : for they said , Lest the earth swallow us up also . * And there came out a fire from the LORD , and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense . * And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto Eleazar #El #azar # the son of Aaron the priest , that he take up the censers out of the burning , and scatter thou the fire yonder ; for they are hallowed . * The censers of these sinners against their own souls , let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar : for they offered them before the LORD , therefore they are hallowed : and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And Eleazar #El #azar # the priest took the brasen censers , wherewith they that were burnt had offered ; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar : * To be a memorial unto the children of Israel Yisra #el #, that #H4616no stranger #H2114 , which is not of the seed of Aaron , come near to offer incense before the LORD ; that he be not as Korah , and as his company : as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses . * But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron , saying , Ye have killed the people of the LORD .

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