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 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} Do this: take 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 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 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 do you seek
the priesthood also? {16:11} Therefore you and all your company are
gathered together against the LORD: 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 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 each man take
his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before the
LORD 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 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, 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 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 around 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 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 LORD'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 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 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 the LORD! 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} 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 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}
Moses did so. As the LORD 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 the LORD. {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 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 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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