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Numbers 16:31-37 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

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.

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