16 (27) So they went up from the dwelling of Qoraĥ, Datan, and Aviram, on every side: and Datan and Aviram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

(28) And Moshe said, Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind.

(29) If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord has not sent me.

(30) But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth, and swallows them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into She᾽ol; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.

(31) And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split beneath them:

(32) and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Qoraĥ, and all their goods.

(33) They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into She᾽ol, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

(34) And all Yisra᾽el that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

(35) And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

17 (1) And the Lord spoke to Moshe saying,

(2) Speak to El῾azar the son of Aharon the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they have become holy.

(3) As for the censers of these sinners against their own lives, let them make them into beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they have become holy: and they shall be a sign to the children of Yisra᾽el.

(4) And El῾azar the priest took the brazen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they made them into beaten plates for a covering of the altar:

(5) to be a memorial to the children of Yisra᾽el, that no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aharon, come near to offer incense before the Lord: that he be not like Qoraĥ and his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moshe.

(6) But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord.

(7) And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moshe and against Aharon, that they looked toward the Tent of Meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

(8) And Moshe and Aharon came before the Tent of Meeting.

(9) And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

(10) Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

(11) And Moshe said to Aharon. Take a censer, and put fire in it from off the altar, and put on incense, and take it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them: for wrath is gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.

(12) And Aharon took as Moshe commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague had begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made atonement for the people.

(13) And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

(14) Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand, seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Qoraĥ.

(15) And Aharon returned to Moshe to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.

(16) And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

(17) Speak to the children of Yisra᾽el, and take of every one of them a rod, one for each father’s house, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers: twelve rods: write every man’s name upon his rod.