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 you, seeing all
the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among
them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of the LORD?
{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 the LORD 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} This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company; {16:7}
and put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD
tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD does choose, he
[shall be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi. {16:8}
Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi: {16:9} [seems it but]
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 tent of the LORD, 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 seek you the priesthood
also? {16:11} Therefore you and all your company are gathered together
against the LORD: and Aaron, what is he who 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 needs make yourself also 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 the LORD, "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 the
LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: {16:17} and take every man
his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you before the LORD
every man his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron,
each his censer. {16:18} They took every man 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 the LORD appeared to all the congregation. {16:20} The LORD
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} The LORD 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, I pray you, 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 the
LORD 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 the LORD
hasn't sent me. {16:30} But if the LORD 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 the LORD. {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
round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the
earth swallow us up. {16:35} Fire came forth from the LORD, and
devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense. {16:36}
The LORD 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 you 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 the LORD; 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 the LORD; that he not be
as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD 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 the people of the LORD. {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 the LORD appeared. {16:43} Moses and Aaron came to
the front of the tent of meeting. {16:44} The LORD 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 therein from off the altar,
and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and
make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD;
the plague is begun. {16:47} Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into
the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague was 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} The LORD 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
you 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 the LORD 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 the LORD to all the children of Israel: and they looked,
and took every man his rod. {17:10} The LORD 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} Thus did Moses: as
the LORD commanded him, so did he. {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 tent of
the LORD, dies: shall we perish all of us?
{18:1} The LORD 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
you 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 charge, and the charge 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 charge 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 keep the charge of the sanctuary,
and the charge 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 the LORD, 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} The LORD spoke to Aaron, I,
behold, I have given you the charge 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} As the most holy things shall you eat of it;
every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you. {18:11} This is
your: 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 the LORD, to you have I given them. {18:13}
The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring
to the LORD, 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 the LORD, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless the
firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean
animals shall you redeem. {18:16} Those who are to be redeemed of them
from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for
the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same
is twenty gerahs). {18:17} But the firstborn of a cow, or the
firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not
redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar,
and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet
savor to the LORD. {18:18} The flesh of them shall be your, 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 the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your
daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt
forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you. {18:20} The
LORD 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 the LORD, 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} The LORD 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 the
LORD, 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 the LORD of all your tithes, which you
receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give the LORD's
wave offering to Aaron the priest. {18:29} Out of all your gifts you
shall offer every wave offering of the LORD, of all the best of it,
even the holy part of it out of it. {18:30} Therefore you shall tell
them, When you heave the best of it 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 the best of it: and you
shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you
not die.
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