Numbers, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of
Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]: {16:2} and they rose up before
Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty
princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
{16:3} and they assembled themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself,
seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is
among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?"
{16:4} When Moses heard it, he fell on his face: {16:5} and he spoke
to Korah and to all his company, saying, "In the morning Yahweh will
show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to
him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him.
{16:6} Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company; {16:7} and
put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and
it shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You
have gone too far, you sons of Levi!"
{16:8} Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi! {16:9} Is
it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from
the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the
service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the
congregation to minister to them; {16:10} and that he has brought you
near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek
the priesthood also? {16:11} Therefore you and all your company are
gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he that you
murmur against him?"
{16:12} Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and
they said, "We won't come up: {16:13} is it a small thing that you
have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill
us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over
us? {16:14} Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with
milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will
you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up." {16:15} Moses
was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I
have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
{16:16} Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company go before
Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: {16:17} and each man take
his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Yahweh
his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his
censer." {16:18} They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and
laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting
with Moses and Aaron. {16:19} Korah assembled all the congregation
against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the glory of
Yahweh appeared to all the congregation. {16:20} Yahweh spoke to Moses
and to Aaron, saying, {16:21} "Separate yourselves from among this
congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" {16:22} They fell
on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"
{16:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:24} "Speak to the
congregation, saying, 'Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram!'" {16:25} Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and
the elders of Israel followed him. {16:26} He spoke to the
congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked
men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their
sins!"
{16:27} So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at
the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their
little ones. {16:28} Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that Yahweh
has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my
own mind. {16:29} If these men die the common death of all men, or if
they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't
sent me. {16:30} But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open
its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and
they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these
men have despised Yahweh."
{16:31} It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground split apart that was under them; {16:32} and the earth
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all
the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. {16:33} So
they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol:
and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the
assembly. {16:34} All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of
them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!" {16:35} Fire came
forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered
the incense.
{16:36} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:37} "Speak to Eleazar the
son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the
burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy, {16:38} even
the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be
made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them
before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to
the children of Israel." {16:39} Eleazar the priest took the bronze
censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them
out for a covering of the altar, {16:40} to be a memorial to the
children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed
of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as
Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses. {16:41}
But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed
Yahweh's people!" {16:42} It happened, when the congregation was
assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the
Tent of Meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of
Yahweh appeared. {16:43} Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent
of Meeting. {16:44} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:45} "Get away
from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"
They fell on their faces.
{16:46} Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from
off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to
the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out
from Yahweh! The plague has begun."
{16:47} Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the
assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he
put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. {16:48} He
stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
{16:49} Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
{16:50} Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting:
and the plague was stayed.
{17:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {17:2} "Speak to the children
of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all
their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write
every man's name on his rod. {17:3} You shall write Aaron's name on
the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their
fathers' houses. {17:4} You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting
before the testimony, where I meet with you. {17:5} It shall happen,
that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make
to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
murmur against you. {17:6} Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and
all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to
their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was
among their rods. {17:7} Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the
tent of the testimony. {17:8} It happened on the next day, that Moses
went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for
the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced
blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. {17:9} Moses brought out all the rods
from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and
took every man his rod. {17:10} Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod
of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the
children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings
against me, that they not die. {17:11} Moses did so. As Yahweh
commanded him, so he did. {17:12} The children of Israel spoke to
Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
{17:13} Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of
Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?
{18:1} Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers'
house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and
your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. {18:2}
Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring
near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you:
but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the
testimony. {18:3} They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all
the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the
sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
{18:4} They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the
Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall
not come near to you. {18:5} You shall perform the duty of the
sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on
the children of Israel. {18:6} I, behold, I have taken your brothers
the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift,
given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. {18:7} You
and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of
the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give
you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes
near shall be put to death. {18:8} Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I
have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy
things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason
of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. {18:9} This
shall be your of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every
offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin
offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they
shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
{18:10} You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male
shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. {18:11} This is yours, too:
the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the
children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to
your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean
in your house shall eat of it. {18:12} All the best of the oil, and
all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of
them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them. {18:13} The
first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to
Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat
of it. {18:14} Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours. {18:15}
Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to
Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall
surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn
of unclean animals. {18:16} You shall redeem those who are to be
redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for
five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is
twenty gerahs). {18:17} But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a
cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are
holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn
their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to
Yahweh. {18:18} Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering
breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. {18:19} All the wave
offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to
Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you,
as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh
to you and to your seed with you. {18:20} Yahweh said to Aaron, You
shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any
portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among the
children of Israel. {18:21} To the children of Levi, behold, I have
given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their
service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
{18:22} Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent
of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. {18:23} But the Levites shall
do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their
iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations;
and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
{18:24} For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a
wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an
inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children of
Israel they shall have no inheritance. {18:25} Yahweh spoke to Moses,
saying, {18:26} Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell
them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have
given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a
wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe. {18:27} Your
wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of
the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. {18:28}
Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your
tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you
shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest. {18:29} Out of
all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all
its best, even the holy part of it out of it. {18:30} Therefore you
shall tell them, When you heave its best from it, then it shall be
reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as
the increase of the winepress. {18:31} You shall eat it in every
place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for
your service in the Tent of Meeting. {18:32} You shall bear no sin by
reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not
profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.
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