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each of you bring his censer before the LORD,
two hundred and fifty censers; both you and
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Aaron, each with his censer.” So every man
took his censer, put fire in it, laid incense on it, 16:30 a new thing.This supernatural opening
and stood at the door of the tabernacle of of the earth to swallow the rebels was a sign
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meeting with Moses and Aaron. And Korah of God’s wrath and the vindication of Moses
gathered all the congregation against them at and Aaron.
the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then
the glory of the LORD appeared to all the con-
gregation. and all the men with Korah, with all their
20 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, goods. So they and all those with them went
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saying, “Separate yourselves from among down alive into the pit; the earth closed over
this congregation, that I may consume them them, and they perished from among the
in a moment.” assembly. Then all Israel who were around
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22 Then they fell on their faces, and said, “O them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the
God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall earth swallow us up also!”
one man sin, and You be angry with all the 35 And a fire came out from the LORD and
congregation?” 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
16:22 the God of the spirits of all flesh. This
phrase appears only here and in 27:16. Moses are holy, and scatter the fire some distance
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called on omniscient God, who knows the away. The censers of these men who sinned
heart of everyone, to judge those who had against their own souls, let them be made into
sinned, and those only. 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.” So Eleazar
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23 So the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, the priest took the bronze censers, which
24 “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get those who were burned up had presented, and
away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and they were hammered out as a covering on the
Abiram.’ ” altar, to be a memorial to the children of
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25 Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Israel that no outsider, who is not a descen-
Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. dant of Aaron, should come near to offer
26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, incense before the LORD, that he might not
“Depart now from the tents of these wicked become like Korah and his companions, just
men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be con- as the LORD had said to him through Moses.
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sumed in all their sins.” So they got away 41 On the next day all the congregation of the
from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and children of Israel complained against Moses
Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people
stood at the door of their tents, with their of the LORD.” Now it happened, when the
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wives, their sons, and their little children. congregation had gathered against Moses and
28 And Moses said: “By this you shall know Aaron, that they turned toward the tabernacle
that the LORD has sent me to do all these of meeting; and suddenly the cloud covered it,
works, for I have not done them of my own will. and the glory of the LORD appeared. Then
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29 If these men die naturally like all men, or if Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle
they are visited by the common fate of all men, of meeting.
then the LORD has not sent me. But if the 44 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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LORD creates a new thing, and the earth opens 45 “Get away from among this congregation,
its mouth and swallows them up with all that that I may consume them in a moment.”
belongs to them, and they go down alive into And they fell on their faces.
the pit, then you will understand that these 46 So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer
men have rejected the LORD.” and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on
31 Now it came to pass, as he finished speak- it, and take it quickly to the congregation and
ing all these words, that the ground split apart make atonement for them; for wrath has gone
under them, and the earth opened its mouth out from the LORD. The plague has begun.”
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and swallowed them up, with their households 47 Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded,
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