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Numbers 16:24-29 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

24. Speak to the community and tell them: Withdraw from the area around the tent of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.

25. Moses, followed by the elders of Israel, arose and went to Dathan and Abiram.

26. Then he spoke to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men and do not touch anything that is theirs: otherwise you too will be swept away because of all their sins.”

27. So they withdrew from the area around the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. When Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrance of their tents with their wives, their children, and their little ones,

28. Moses said, “This is how you shall know that the Lord sent me to do all I have done, and that it was not of my own devising:

29. if these die an ordinary death, merely suffering the fate common to all humanity, the Lord has not sent me.

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