Numbers 16

1Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.Cross-references: Gen 49:3 · Ex 6:18 · Ex 6:21 · Num 26:9 · Num 27:3 · Deut 11:6 · +2 more

2They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.Cross-references: Gen 6:4 · Num 1:16 · Num 26:9 · 1Chr 5:24 · 1Chr 12:30 · Ezek 16:14 · +1 more

3They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”Cross-references: Ex 19:6 · Ex 29:45 · Num 12:1 · Num 14:1 · Num 14:14 · Num 16:7 · +11 more

4When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.Cross-references: Num 14:5 · Num 16:45 · Num 20:6 · Josh 7:6

5He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.Cross-references: Ex 28:1 · Ex 28:43 · Lev 8:2 · Lev 10:3 · Lev 21:6 · Lev 21:12 · +23 more

6Do this: have Korah and all his company take censers,Cross-references: Lev 10:1 · Lev 16:12 · Num 16:35 · Num 16:46 · 1Ki 18:21

7put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”Cross-references: Num 16:3 · Num 16:5 · 1Ki 18:17 · Matt 21:23 · Eph 1:4 · 2Thess 2:13 · +1 more

8Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!

9Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;Cross-references: Gen 30:15 · Num 1:53 · Num 3:6 · Num 3:41 · Num 8:14 · Num 16:13 · +11 more

10and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?Cross-references: Num 3:10 · Num 18:7 · Prov 13:10 · Matt 20:21 · Luke 22:24 · Rom 12:10 · +2 more

11Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”Cross-references: Ex 16:7 · Ex 17:2 · Num 16:3 · 1Sam 8:7 · Luke 10:16 · John 13:20 · +4 more

12Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!Cross-references: Prov 29:9 · Isa 3:5 · 1Pet 2:13 · Jude 1:8

13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?Cross-references: Ex 1:11 · Ex 1:22 · Ex 2:14 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 16:3 · Ex 17:3 · +7 more

14Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Ex 3:17 · Ex 22:5 · Ex 23:11 · Lev 20:24 · Num 20:5 · +3 more

15Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”Cross-references: Gen 4:4 · Ex 32:19 · Num 12:3 · Num 16:6 · 1Sam 12:3 · Isa 1:10 · +9 more

16Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.Cross-references: Num 16:6 · 1Sam 12:3 · 1Sam 12:7 · 2Tim 2:14

17Each man take his censer and put incense on it, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each with his censer.”Cross-references: 1Sam 12:7

18They each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.

19Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.Cross-references: Ex 16:7 · Ex 16:10 · Lev 9:6 · Lev 9:23 · Num 12:5 · Num 14:10 · +3 more

20Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

21“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”Cross-references: Gen 19:15 · Ex 32:10 · Ex 33:5 · Num 14:12 · Num 14:15 · Num 16:45 · +8 more

22They 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?”Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · Gen 18:32 · Num 14:5 · Num 16:4 · Num 16:45 · Num 27:16 · +10 more

23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

24“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”Cross-references: Num 16:21

25Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.Cross-references: Num 11:16 · Num 11:25 · Num 11:30

26He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”Cross-references: Gen 19:12 · Num 16:21 · Deut 13:17 · Isa 52:11 · Matt 10:14 · Acts 8:20 · +4 more

27So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:30 · Job 9:4 · Job 40:10 · Prov 16:18 · Prov 18:12 · Isa 28:14

28Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.Cross-references: Ex 3:12 · Ex 4:1 · Ex 7:9 · Num 24:13 · Deut 18:22 · 1Ki 18:36 · +9 more

29If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Ex 32:34 · 1Ki 22:28 · 2Chr 18:27 · Job 35:15 · Eccl 3:19 · +3 more

30But if Yahweh 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, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”Cross-references: Num 16:33 · Job 31:3 · Ps 55:15 · Isa 28:21 · Isa 43:19 · Isa 45:7 · +2 more

31As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.Cross-references: Num 26:10 · Num 27:3 · Deut 11:6 · Ps 106:17

32The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.Cross-references: Gen 4:11 · Num 16:17 · Num 16:30 · Num 26:11 · Num 27:3 · Deut 11:6 · +8 more

33So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.Cross-references: Ps 9:15 · Ps 55:23 · Ps 69:15 · Ps 143:7 · Isa 14:9 · Isa 14:15 · +3 more

34All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”Cross-references: Num 17:12 · Isa 33:3 · Zech 14:5 · Rev 6:15

35Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.Cross-references: Lev 10:2 · Num 11:1 · Num 16:2 · Num 16:17 · Num 26:10 · Ps 106:18

36Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

37“Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,Cross-references: Lev 27:28 · Num 16:7 · Num 16:18

38even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”Cross-references: Num 16:40 · Num 17:10 · Num 26:10 · 1Ki 2:23 · Prov 1:18 · Prov 8:36 · +5 more

39Eleazar 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, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.Cross-references: Ex 30:7 · Lev 22:10 · Num 1:51 · Num 3:10 · Num 3:38 · Num 18:4 · +3 more

41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”Cross-references: Num 14:2 · Num 16:1 · 2Sam 16:7 · 1Ki 18:17 · Ps 106:13 · Ps 106:23 · +10 more

42When the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they looked toward the Tent of Meeting. Behold, the cloud covered it, and Yahweh’s glory appeared.Cross-references: Ex 16:7 · Ex 16:10 · Ex 24:16 · Ex 40:34 · Lev 9:23 · Num 14:10 · +2 more

43Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.

44Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

45“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.Cross-references: Num 16:21 · Num 16:24 · Num 16:26 · Num 20:6 · 1Chr 21:16 · Matt 26:39

46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”Cross-references: Ex 30:7 · Lev 9:24 · Lev 10:6 · Lev 16:11 · Num 1:53 · Num 8:19 · +14 more

47Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.Cross-references: Num 16:46 · Num 25:6 · Deut 33:10 · Ps 106:29 · Isa 53:10 · Matt 5:44 · +1 more

48He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.Cross-references: Num 16:18 · Num 16:35 · Num 25:8 · 2Sam 24:16 · 2Sam 24:25 · 1Chr 21:26 · +6 more

49Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.Cross-references: Num 16:32 · Num 25:9 · 1Chr 21:14 · Heb 2:1 · Heb 10:28 · Heb 12:25

50Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.Cross-references: Num 16:43 · 1Chr 21:26