Verse 8
Numbers 16:8
New Living Translation
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Then Moses spoke again to Korah: “Now listen, you Levites!
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֖ה אֶל קֹ֑רַח שִׁמְעוּ נָ֖א בְּנֵ֥י לֵוִֽי
English Translation
And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, sons of Levi."
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Chapter 16 Context
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One day Korah son of Izhar, a descendant of Kohath son of Levi, conspired with Dathan and Abiram, th...
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They incited a rebellion against Moses, along with 250 other leaders of the community, all prominent...
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They united against Moses and Aaron and said, “You have gone too far! The whole community of Israel...
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When Moses heard what they were saying, he fell face down on the ground.
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Then he said to Korah and his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will show us who belongs to him...
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Korah, you and all your followers must prepare your incense burners.
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Light fires in them tomorrow, and burn incense before the LORD. Then we will see whom the LORD choos...
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Then Moses spoke again to Korah: “Now listen, you Levites!
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Does it seem insignificant to you that the God (Elohim) of Israel has chosen you from among all the...
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Korah, he has already given this special ministry to you and your fellow Levites. Are you now demand...
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The LORD is the one you and your followers are really revolting against! For who is Aaron that you a...
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Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, “We refuse to come befor...
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Isn’t it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us her...
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What’s more, you haven’t brought us into another land flowing with milk and honey. You haven’t given...
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Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not accept their grain offerings! I have not...
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And Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers must come here tomorrow and present yourselves...
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You and each of your 250 followers must prepare an incense burner and put incense on it, so you can...
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So each of these men prepared an incense burner, lit the fire, and placed incense on it. Then they a...
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Meanwhile, Korah had stirred up the entire community against Moses and Aaron, and they all gathered...
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and the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
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“Get away from all these people so that I may instantly destroy them!”
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But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. “O God (Elohim),” they pleaded, “you are the God (...
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And the LORD said to Moses,
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“Then tell all the people to get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
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So Moses got up and rushed over to the tents of Dathan and Abiram, followed by the elders of Israel.
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“Quick!” he told the people. “Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and don’t touch anything...
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So all the people stood back from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Then Dathan and Abiram cam...
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And Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things that I h...
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If these men die a natural death, or if nothing unusual happens, then the LORD has not sent me.
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But if the LORD does something entirely new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all...
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He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.
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The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their follower...
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So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them,...
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All the people around them fled when they heard their screams. “The earth will swallow us, too!” the...
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Then fire blazed forth from the LORD and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.
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And the LORD said to Moses,
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“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pull all the incense burners from the fire, for they are ho...
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Take the incense burners of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and hammer the met...
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So Eleazar the priest collected the 250 bronze incense burners that had been used by the men who die...
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This would warn the Israelites that no unauthorized person — no one who was not a descendant of Aaro...
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But the very next morning the whole community of Israel began muttering again against Moses and Aaro...
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As the community gathered to protest against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tabernacle and...
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Moses and Aaron came and stood in front of the Tabernacle,
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and the LORD said to Moses,
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“Get away from all these people so that I can instantly destroy them!” But Moses and Aaron fell face...
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And Moses said to Aaron, “Quick, take an incense burner and place burning coals on it from the altar...
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Aaron did as Moses told him and ran out among the people. The plague had already begun to strike dow...
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He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped.
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But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the affair involving Kor...
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Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
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