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Numbers 16:23-32 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

23. And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

24. “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Move away from around the tents of Qoraḥ, Dathan, and Aḇiram.’ ”

25. So Mosheh rose up and went to Dathan and Aḇiram, and the elders of Yisra’ĕl followed him.

26. And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Please turn away from the tents of these wrong men! Do not touch whatever belongs to them, lest you be consumed in all their sins.”

27. Then they moved away from around the tents of Qoraḥ, Dathan, and Aḇiram. And Dathan and Aḇiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

28. And Mosheh said, “By this you know that יהוה has sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart.

29. “If these die as all men do, or if they are visited as all men are visited, then יהוה has not sent me.

30. “But if יהוה creates what is unheard of, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you shall know that these men have scorned יהוה.”

31. And it came to be, as he ended speaking all these words, that the ground under them split apart,

32. and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Qoraḥ, with all their goods.

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