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Then ADONAI said to Moshe, "This man must be put to death; the entire community is to stone him to death outside the camp."

So the whole community brought him outside the camp and threw stones at him until he died, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

It is to be a tzitzit for you to look at and thereby remember all of ADONAI's mitzvot and obey them, so that you won't go around wherever your own heart and eyes lead you to prostitute yourselves;

but it will help you remember and obey all my mitzvot and be holy for your God.

I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt in order to be your God. I am ADONAI your God."

They assembled themselves against Moshe and Aharon and said to them, "You take too much on yourselves! After all, the entire community is holy, every one of them, and ADONAI is among them. So why do you lift yourselves up above ADONAI's assembly?"

Then he said to Korach and his whole group, "In the morning, ADONAI will show who are his and who is the holy person he will allow to approach him. Yes, he will bring whomever he chooses near to himself.

put fire in them; and put incense in them before ADONAI tomorrow. The one whom ADONAI chooses will be the one who is holy! It is you, you sons of Levi, who are taking too much on yourselves!"

Is it for you a mere trifle that the God of Isra'el has separated you from the community of Isra'el to bring you close to himself, so that you can do the work in the tabernacle of ADONAI and stand before the community serving them?

He has brought you close and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you. Now you want the office of cohen too!

That's why you and your group have gathered together against ADONAI! After all, what is Aharon that you complain against him?"

Moshe was very angry and said to ADONAI, "Don't accept their grain offering! I haven't taken one donkey from them, I've done nothing wrong to any of them."

Moshe said to Korach, "You and your group, be there before ADONAI tomorrow -you, they and Aharon.

Each of you take his fire pan and put incense in it; every one of you, bring before ADONAI his fire pan, 250 fire pans, you too, and Aharon - each one his fire pan."

Korach assembled all the group who were against them at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then the glory of ADONAI appeared to the whole assembly.

ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon,

"Separate yourselves from this assembly; I'm going to destroy them right now!"

They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?"

ADONAI answered Moshe,

Moshe said, "Here is how you will know that ADONAI has sent me to do all these things and that I haven't done them out of my own ambition:

if these men die a natural death like other people, only sharing the fate common to all humanity, then ADONAI has not sent me.

But if ADONAI does something new - if the ground opens up and swallows them with everything they own, and they go down alive to Sh'ol - then you will understand that these men have had contempt for ADONAI."

Then fire came out from ADONAI and destroyed the 250 men who had offered the incense.

ADONAI said to Moshe,