OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 27

Numbers 16:27

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So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

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Numbers 16:24–30

24

“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”

25

Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

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!”

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So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

28

Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

29

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me.

30

But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.”

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