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chapter 16
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behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and
Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,
2 Rose lap against Moses, and with them two hundred and
fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who
in the time of assembly were called by name.
3 And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron,
they said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy
ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people
of the Lord?
4 When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face:
5 And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said:
In the morning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he will
join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to him.
6 Do this therefore: Take every man of you your
censers, thou Core, and all thy company.
7 And putting fire in them to morrow, put incense upon
it before the Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you
take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
8 And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.
9 Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel
hath spared you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should
serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the
congregation of the people, and should minister to him?
10 Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the
sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the
priesthood also,
11 And that all thy company should stand against the
Lord ? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him?
12 Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons
of Eliab. But they answered: We will not come.
13 Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought
us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert,
except thou rule also like a lord over us?
14 Thou best brought us indeed into a land that floweth
with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and
vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.
15 Moses therefore being very angry, raid to the Lord:
Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so
much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.
16 And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation
stand apart before the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart.
17 Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon
them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold
his censer.
18 When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,
19 And had drawn up all the multitude against them to
the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.
20 And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:
21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation,
that I may presently destroy them.
22 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most
mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath
rage against all?
23 And the Lord said to Moses:
24 Command the whole people to separate themselves from
the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron.
25 And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and
the ancients of Israel following him,
26 He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of
these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their
sins.
27 And when they were departed from their tents round
about, Dathan and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with
their wives and children, and all the people.
28 And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord
hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of
my own head:
29 If these men die the common death of men, and if
they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited,
the Lord did not send me.
30 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth
opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and
they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the
Lord.
31 And immediately as he had made an end of speaking,
the earth broke asunder under their feet:
32 And opening her mouth, devoured them with their
tents and all their substance.
33 And they went down alive into hell the ground
closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.
34 But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled
at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow
us up also.
35 And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the
two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
36 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
37 Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take
up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and
the other: because they are sanctified
38 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them
into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in
them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see
them for a sign and a memorial.
39 Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers,
wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them
into plates, fastening them to the altar:
40 That the children of Israel might have for the time
to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that
is not of seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he
should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord
spoke to Moses.
41 The following day all the multitude of the children
of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people
of the Lord.
42 And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult
increased,
43 Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the
covenant. And when the were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory
of the Lord appeared.
44 And the Lord said to Moses:
45 Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this
moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,
46 Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting
fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to
pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague
rageth.
47 When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst
of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the
incense:
48 And standing between the dead and the living, he
prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.
49 And the number of them that were slain was fourteen
thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition
of Core.
50 And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the
tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.
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