and fifty censers, and Aaron with his censer. And they took every man
his censer and put fire in them and laid cense thereon, and stood in
the door of the tabernacle of witness, and Moses and Aaron also. And
Corah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the
tabernacle of witness. And the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the
congregation. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: separate
your selves from this congregation, that I may consume them at once.
And they fell upon their faces and said: O most mighty God of the
spirits of all flesh, one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with
all the multitude? And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the
congregation and say: Get you away from about the dwelling of Corah,
Dathan and Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram,
and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spake unto the
congregation saying: depart from the tents of these wicked men and
twich nothing of theirs: lest ye perish in all their sins. And they gat
them from the dwelling of Corah, Dathan and Abiram, on every side. And
Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents with
their wives, their sons and their children. And Moses said: Hereby ye
shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I
have not done them of mine own mind: If these men die the common death
of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then
the LORD hath not sent me. But and if the LORD make a new thing, and
the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto
them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand,
that these men have railed upon the LORD. And as soon as he had made an
end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was
under them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their
houses and all the men that were with Corah and all their goods. And
they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and
the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the
congregation. And all Israel that were about them, fled at the cry of
them. For they said: The earth might happily swallow us also. And there
came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty
men that offered cense. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Speak
unto Eleazer the son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the
censers out of the burning and scatter the fire here and there, for the
censers of these sinners are hallowed in their deaths: and let them be
beaten into thin plates and fastened upon the altar. For they offered
them before the LORD, and therefore they are holy and they shall be a
sign unto the children of Israel. And Eleazar the priest took the
brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered, and beat them
and fastened them upon the altar, to be a remembrance unto the children
of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come
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