16:20. And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said: 16:21. Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them. 16:22. They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all? 16:23. And the Lord said to Moses: 16:24. Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron. 16:25. And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him, 16:26. He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins. 16:27. And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their wives and children, and all the people. 16:28. And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head: 16:29. If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me. 16:30. But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. 16:31. And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet: 16:32. And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance. 16:33. And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people. 16:34. But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also. 16:35. And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense. 16:36. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 16:37. Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are sanctified 16:38. In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial. 16:39. Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into plates, fastening them to the altar: 16:40. That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord spoke to Moses.