28. And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them out of my own heart.
29. If these men die the common death of all men or if they are visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.
30. But if the Lord does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.
31. And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground broke open under them;
32. the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses and all the men of Korah and all their goods.
33. They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.
34. And all Israel, those that were round about them, fled at the cry of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
35. And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
36. Then the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
37. Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder, for
38. the censers of these sinners are sanctified against their own souls, and broad plates shall be made of them for a covering of the altar, for they offered with them before the Lord; therefore, they are sanctified, and they shall be a sign unto the sons of Israel.
39. And Eleazar, the priest, took the brass censers with which those that were burnt had offered, and they were made into a broad covering of the altar
40. to be a memorial unto the sons of Israel, that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he not be as Korah and as his company, as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.