Verse 45
Numbers 16:45
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,
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Chapter 16 Context
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And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons...
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Rose lap against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leadin...
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And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you, that all th...
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When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face:
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And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the morning the Lord will make known who bel...
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Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core, and all thy company.
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And putting fire in them to morrow, put incense upon it before the Lord: and whomsoever he shall cho...
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And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.
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Is it a small thing unto you, that the God (Elohim) of Israel hath spared you from all the people, a...
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Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you shou...
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And that all thy company should stand against the Lord ? for what is Aaron that you murmur against h...
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Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But they answered: We will not come.
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Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and hone...
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Thou best brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given u...
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Moses therefore being very angry, raid to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that...
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And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord to morrow, and Aaron a...
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Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty...
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When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,
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And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord...
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And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:
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Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them.
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They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God (Elohim) of the spirits of all flesh,...
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And the Lord said to Moses:
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Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron.
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And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,
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He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, le...
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And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming out stood in the...
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And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and...
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If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others als...
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But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things th...
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And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:
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And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.
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And they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the pe...
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But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying:...
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And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incens...
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to s...
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In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, becau...
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Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had...
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That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, tha...
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The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, sayi...
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And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,
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Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when the were gone into it, the cloud co...
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And the Lord said to Moses:
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Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lyin...
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Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, an...
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When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now d...
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And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.
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And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them tha...
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And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was...
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