Numbers 16

45  Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

46  And Moses said unto Aaron, Take they censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun.

47  And Aaron took as Moses spake, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

48  And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

49  Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

50  And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.

1  Now 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 `men':

2  And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;

3  And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah?

4  And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:


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