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Numbers 16:1¹Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites, took menCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jude 1:11 Deut 11:6 Exod 6:21 Exod 6:18 Gen 49:3-4 Num 26:9-10 Num 27:3 1 Chr 5:1-2

Numbers 16:2²and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders of the community, chosen from the assembly, famous men.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 26:9 Ezek 23:10 1 Chr 5:24 Gen 6:4 Num 1:16 1 Chr 12:30

Numbers 16:3³And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the Lord?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 106:16 Exod 19:6 Num 14:14 Acts 7:51 Num 16:7 Acts 7:39 Exod 29:45-46 Ezra 9:2 Isa 1:11-16 Jer 7:3-12

Numbers 16:4⁴When Moses heard it he fell down with his face to the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 14:5 Num 20:6 Josh 7:6 Num 16:45

Numbers 16:5⁵Then he said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning the Lord will make known who are his, and who is holy. He will cause that person to approach him; the person he has chosen he will cause to approach him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 65:4 Num 17:5 2 Tim 2:19 Lev 10:3 Num 16:3 1 Pet 2:5-9 1 Sam 2:28 2 Tim 2:3-4 Acts 1:2 Acts 1:24

Numbers 16:6⁶Do this, Korah, you and all your company: Take censers,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 10:1 1 Kgs 18:21-23 Lev 16:12-13 Num 16:35-40 Num 16:46-48

Numbers 16:7⁷put fire in them, and set incense on them before the Lord tomorrow, and the man whom the Lord chooses will be holy. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:3 1 Kgs 18:17-18 1 Pet 2:9 2 Thess 2:13 Eph 1:4 Matt 21:23-27 Num 16:5

Numbers 16:8⁸Moses said to Korah, “Listen now, you sons of Levi!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:9⁹Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the community to minister to them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 10:8 Isa 7:13 Ezek 44:10-11 1 Sam 18:23 Neh 12:44 Num 1:53 Num 16:13 Num 3:6 2 Chr 35:3 2 Sam 7:19

Numbers 16:10¹⁰He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:3 John 1:9 Luke 22:24 Matt 20:21-22 Num 18:7 Num 3:10 Phil 2:3 Prov 13:10 Rom 12:10

Numbers 16:11¹¹Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron—what is he that you murmur against him?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 16:7-8 Exod 17:2 1 Cor 3:5 Num 16:3 1 Sam 8:7 Acts 5:4 John 13:20 Luke 10:16 Rom 13:2 1 Cor 10:10

Numbers 16:12¹²Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:13-14 Isa 3:5 Jude 1:8 Prov 29:9

Numbers 16:13¹³Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:35 Exod 16:3 Exod 2:14 Num 11:5 Acts 7:25-27 Exod 1:11 Exod 1:22 Exod 17:3 Exod 2:23 Luke 19:14

Numbers 16:14¹⁴Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 11:2 Judg 16:21 Lev 20:24 Num 36:8-10 Exod 22:5 Exod 23:11 Exod 3:17 Exod 3:8 Num 20:5

Numbers 16:15¹⁵Moses was very angry, and he said to the Lord, “Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 4:4-5 2 Cor 7:2 1 Cor 9:15 1 Sam 12:3-4 1 Thess 2:10 2 Cor 1:12 2 Cor 12:14-17 Acts 20:33-34 Exod 32:19 Isa 1:10-15

Numbers 16:16¹⁶Then Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company present yourselves before the Lord —you and they, and Aaron—tomorrow.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 12:3 1 Sam 12:7 2 Tim 2:14 Num 16:6-7

Numbers 16:17¹⁷And each of you take his censer, put incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the Lord: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron—each of you with his censer.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 12:7

Numbers 16:18¹⁸So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:19¹⁹When Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 14:10 Num 16:42 Exod 16:7 Lev 9:23 Exod 16:10 Lev 9:6 Num 12:5 Num 16:1-2 Num 20:6

Numbers 16:20²⁰The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:21²¹“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 32:10 Num 16:45 Exod 33:5 Ps 73:19 Rev 18:4 2 Cor 6:17 Acts 2:40 Eph 5:6-7 Gen 19:15-22 Heb 12:28-29

Numbers 16:22²²Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 27:16 Job 12:10 Zech 12:1 Eccl 12:7 Heb 12:9 Gen 18:23-25 Rom 5:18 2 Sam 24:17 Gen 18:32 Isa 57:16

Numbers 16:23²³So the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:24²⁴“Tell the community: ‘Get away from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:21

Numbers 16:25²⁵Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 11:16-17 Num 11:25 Num 11:30

Numbers 16:26²⁶And he said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 52:11 2 Cor 6:17 Rev 18:4 1 Tim 5:22 Acts 13:51 Acts 8:20 Deut 13:17 Gen 19:12-15 Num 16:21-24 Matt 10:14

Numbers 16:27²⁷So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 9:30-31 Isa 28:14 Job 40:10-11 Job 9:4 Prov 16:18 Prov 18:12

Numbers 16:28²⁸Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 3:12 John 6:38 Ezek 13:17 Jer 23:16 John 14:11 John 5:36 1 Kgs 18:36 Deut 18:22 Exod 4:1-9 Exod 7:9

Numbers 16:29²⁹If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:28 Lam 4:22 2 Chr 18:27 Eccl 3:19 Exod 32:34 Isa 10:3 Jer 5:9 Job 35:15 Exod 20:5

Numbers 16:30³⁰But if the Lord does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 55:15 Num 16:33 Job 31:3 Isa 28:21 Isa 43:19 Isa 45:12 Isa 45:7 Jer 31:22

Numbers 16:31³¹When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 11:6 Num 27:3 Ps 106:17-18 Num 26:10-11

Numbers 16:32³²and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 26:11 Ps 106:17 Rev 12:16 1 Chr 6:22 Isa 5:14 1 Chr 6:37 Deut 11:6 Num 16:17 Num 16:30 Num 27:3

Numbers 16:33³³They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 32:18 Ezek 32:30 Isa 14:15 Isa 14:9 Jude 1:11 Ps 143:7 Ps 55:23 Ps 69:15 Ps 9:15

Numbers 16:34³⁴All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “What if the earth swallows us too?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 33:3 Num 17:12-13 Rev 6:15-17 Zech 14:5

Numbers 16:35³⁵Then a fire went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 10:2 Num 26:10 Ps 106:18 Num 11:1-3 Num 16:17 Num 16:2

Numbers 16:36³⁶(17:1) The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:37³⁷“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 27:28 Num 16:18 Num 16:7

Numbers 16:38³⁸As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:6 Ezek 14:8 Num 26:10 Prov 20:2 1 Kgs 2:23 Hab 2:10 Num 17:10 1 Cor 10:11 Num 16:40 Prov 1:18

Numbers 16:39³⁹So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:40⁴⁰It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had spoken by the authority of Moses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 3:10 2 Chr 26:16-21 Num 18:4-7 1 Kgs 13:1-3 Exod 30:7-10 Jude 1:11 Lev 22:10 Num 1:51 Num 3:38

Numbers 16:41⁴¹But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord ’s people!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:1-7 Num 14:2 Ps 106:23 Ps 106:25-48 1 Kgs 18:17 2 Sam 16:7-8 Acts 21:28 Acts 5:28 Amos 7:10 Isa 26:11

Numbers 16:42⁴²When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting—and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:19 Lev 9:23 Num 20:6 Exod 16:10 Exod 16:7 Exod 24:16 Exod 40:34-35 Num 14:10

Numbers 16:43⁴³Then Moses and Aaron stood before the tent of meeting.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:44⁴⁴The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 16:45⁴⁵“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:21-22 Num 16:24 1 Chr 21:16 Matt 26:39 Num 16:26 Num 20:6

Numbers 16:46⁴⁶Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord —the plague has begun!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 8:19 1 Chr 27:24 Lev 10:6 Isa 6:6-7 Num 11:33 Num 18:5 Ps 106:29 Rev 8:3-5 Heb 9:25-26 Lev 9:24-10:1

Numbers 16:47⁴⁷So Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 33:10-11 Isa 53:10-12 Matt 5:44 Num 16:46 Num 25:6-8 Ps 106:29 Rom 12:21

Numbers 16:48⁴⁸He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:25 1 Chr 21:26-27 1 Thess 1:10 1 Tim 2:5-6 2 Sam 24:16-17 Heb 7:24-25 Jas 5:16 John 5:14 Num 16:18 Num 16:35

Numbers 16:49⁴⁹Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 16:32-35 Num 25:9 1 Chr 21:14 Heb 10:28-29 Heb 12:25 Heb 2:1-3

Numbers 16:50⁵⁰Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 21:26-30 Num 16:43

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