11. So you and all your followers have joined forces against the Lord! Who is Aaron that you should complain about him?”
12. Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab. But they said, “We won’t come!
13. Isn’t it enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey only to kill us in the desert? Do you also have to order us around?
14. Certainly you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us any fields and vineyards to own. Do you think you can still pull the wool over our eyes? We won’t come.”
15. Moses became angry and said to the Lord, “Don’t accept their offering. I haven’t taken anything from them, not even a donkey. And I haven’t mistreated any of them.”
16. Moses said to Korah, “Tomorrow you and all your followers must come into the Lord’s presence. Aaron will also be there with you.
17. Each man will take his incense burner and put incense in it. They will offer all 250 incense burners to the Lord. Then you and Aaron offer your incense burners.”
18. So each man took his incense burner, put burning coals and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
19. When Korah had gathered all his followers—those who opposed Moses and Aaron—at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole group.
20. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
21. “Move away from these men, and I’ll destroy them in an instant.”
22. Immediately, they bowed with their faces touching the ground and said, “O God, you are the God who gives the breath of life to everyone! If one man sins, will you be angry with the whole community?”
23. Then the Lord said to Moses,
24. “Tell the community: Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
25. Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the leaders of Israel followed him.
26. He said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men. Don’t touch anything that belongs to them, or you’ll be swept away because of all their sins.”
27. So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrances to their tents with their wives and children.