Numbers 16

The rebellion of Korah and his company against Moses, Numbers 16:1-3 . He directs them how to try, in the course of the next day, whom God had called to the priesthood, Numbers 16:4-11 . Dathan and Abiram use the most seditious speeches, Numbers 16:12-14 . Moses is wroth, Numbers 16:15 ; and orders Korah and his company to be ready on the morrow with their censers and incense, Numbers 16:16-18 . Korah gathers his company together, Numbers 16:19 . The glory of the Lord appears, and he threatens to consume them, Numbers 16:20 , Numbers 16:21 . Moses and Aaron intercede for them, Numbers 16:22 . The people are commanded to leave the tents of the rebels, Numbers 16:23-26 . They obey, and Korah and his company come out and stand before the door of their tents, Numbers 16:27 . Moses in a solemn address puts the contention to issue, Numbers 16:28-30 . As soon as he had done speaking, the earth clave and swallowed them, and all that appertained to them, Numbers 16:31-34 ; and the 250 men who offered incense are consumed by fire, Numbers 16:35 . The Lord commands Eleazar to preserve the censers, because they were hallowed, Numbers 16:36-38 . Eleazar makes of them a covering for the altar, Numbers 16:39 , Numbers 16:40 . The next day the people murmur anew, the glory of the Lord appears, and Moses and Aaron go to the tabernacle, Numbers 16:41-43 . They are commanded to separate themselves from the congregation, Numbers 16:44 , Numbers 16:45 . Moses, perceiving that God had sent a plague among them, directs Aaron to hasten and make an atonement, Numbers 16:46 . Aaron does so, and the plague is stayed, Numbers 16:47 , Numbers 16:48 . The number of those who died by the plague, 14,700 men, Numbers 16:49 , Numbers 16:50 .