23. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
24. “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”
25. Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
26. He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
27. So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
28. Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.
29. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.
30. But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
31. As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.
32. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
33. So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
34. All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
35. Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
36. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
37. “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy,
38. even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
39. Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
40. to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
41. But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”