29. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.
30. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have despised the Lord.
31. And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
32. and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
33. So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
34. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
35. And fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
36. And the Lord spake 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 they are holy;
38. even the censers of these sinners against their own lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are holy: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
39. And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar:
40. to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord spake unto him by the hand of Moses.
41. But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
42. And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
43. And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.