30. But if the Lord makes a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”
31. So it was, when he finished speaking all these words, that the ground that was under them split open.
32. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, and their houses, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their goods.
33. And they and all that belonged to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
34. All Israel that was around them fled at their cry because they said, “The earth will swallow us also.”
35. A fire went out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
36. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
37. Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze, for they are holy. Then scatter the fire far and wide.
38. As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord and they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
39. So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar,
40. to be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, shall approach to offer incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his company, as the Lord has said to him through Moses.
41. But the next day all the assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”
42. When the assembly was gathered against Moses and Aaron, they looked toward the tent of meeting. The cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
43. Moses and Aaron went before the tent of meeting.