28. Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord 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 the Lord hasn’t sent me.
30. But if the Lord 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 the Lord.”
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 the Lord, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
36. The Lord 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 those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before the Lord. 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 the Lord, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as the Lord spoke to him by Moses.