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, since
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 went away 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 [1>]Sheol[<1]; 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
[2>]Sheol[<2]: 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! Will we all
perish?"
{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 yours 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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Footnotes:
[1] {16:30} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[2] {16:33} Sheol is the place of the dead.
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