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Numbers 16:29-36 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

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,

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