30. But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”
31. As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart
32. and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.
33. They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.
34. At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”
35. And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
36. The Lord said to Moses,
37. “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy—
38. the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives. Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign to the Israelites.”