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.
33. So they and all those with them went down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
34. And all Yisra’ĕl who were round about them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
35. And a fire came out from יהוה and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.
36. And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
37. “Say to El‛azar, son of Aharon the priest, to pick up the fire holders out of the blaze, for they are set-apart, and scatter the fire some distance away.
38. “The fire holders of these men who sinned against their own lives, let them be made into beaten plates as a covering for the altar. Because they brought them before יהוה, therefore they are set-apart. And let them become a sign to the children of Yisra’ĕl.”
39. And El‛azar the priest took the bronze fire holders, which those who were burned up had brought, and they were beaten out as a covering on the altar –
40. a remembrance to the children of Yisra’ĕl that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aharon, should come near to offer incense before יהוה, and not be like Qoraḥ and his company – as יהוה had said to him through Mosheh.
41. But all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against Mosheh and against Aharon on the next day, saying, “You, you have killed the people of יהוה.”