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And Korah gathered all the congregation against them at the door of the tabernacle of meeting .
Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation .
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And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron ,
saying ,
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Separate yourselves from among this congregation ,
that I may consume them in a moment ."
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Then they fell on their faces ,
and said , "
O God ,
the God of the spirits of all flesh ,
shall one man sin ,
and You be angry with all the congregation ?"
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So the LORD spoke to Moses ,
saying ,
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Speak to the congregation ,
saying , "
Get away from the tents of Korah ,
Dathan ,
and Abiram ."'
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Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram ,
and the elders of Israel followed him .
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And he spoke to the congregation ,
saying , "
Depart now from the tents of these wicked men !
Touch nothing of theirs ,
lest you be consumed in all their sins ."
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So they got away from around the tents of Korah ,
Dathan ,
and Abiram ;
and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents ,
with their wives ,
their sons ,
and their little children .
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And Moses said : "
By this you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works ,
for I have not done them of my own will .
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If these men die naturally like all men ,
or if they are visited by the common fate of all men ,
then the LORD has not sent me .
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But if the LORD creates a new thing ,
and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them ,
and they go down alive into the pit ,
then you will understand that these men have rejected the LORD ."
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Now it came to pass ,
as he finished speaking all these words ,
that the ground split apart under them ,
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and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up ,
with their households and all the men with Korah ,
with all their goods .
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So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit ;
the earth closed over them ,
and they perished from among the assembly .
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Then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry ,
for they said , "
Lest the earth swallow us up also !"
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And a fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense .
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses ,
saying :
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Tell Eleazar ,
the son of Aaron the priest ,
to pick up the censers out of the blaze ,
for they are holy ,
and scatter the fire some distance away .
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The censers of these men who sinned against their own souls ,
let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar .
Because they presented them before the LORD ,
therefore they are holy ;
and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel ."
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So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers ,
which those who were burned up had presented ,
and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar ,
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to be a memorial to the children of Israel that no outsider ,
who is not a descendant of Aaron ,
should come near to offer incense before the LORD ,
that he might not become like Korah and his companions ,
just as the LORD had said to him through Moses .
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On the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron ,
saying , "
You have killed the people of the LORD ."