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Numbers 16:14-22 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

14. You certainly have not brought us into a fertile land or given us fields and vineyards as our possession, and now you are trying to deceive us. We will not come!”

15. Moses was angry and said to the Lord, “Do not accept any offerings these men bring. I have not wronged any of them; I have not even taken one of their donkeys.”

16. Moses said to Korah, “Tomorrow you and your 250 followers must come to the Tent of the Lord's presence; Aaron will also be there.

17. Each of you will take his firepan, put incense on it, and then present it at the altar.”

18. So every man took his firepan, put live coals and incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the Tent with Moses and Aaron.

19. Then Korah gathered the whole community, and they stood facing Moses and Aaron at the entrance of the Tent. Suddenly the dazzling light of the Lord's presence appeared to the whole community,

20. and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

21. “Stand back from these people, and I will destroy them immediately.”

22. But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, you are the source of all life. When one person sins, do you get angry with the whole community?”

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