Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

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?"

When Moshe heard this he fell on his face.

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.

Do this: take censers, Korach and all your group;

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!"

Then Moshe said to Korach, "Listen here, you sons of Levi!

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?"

Then Moshe sent to summon Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av. But they replied, "We won't come up!

Is it such a mere trifle, bringing us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that now you arrogate to yourself the role of dictator over us?

You haven't at all brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and you haven't put us in possession of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can gouge out these men's eyes and blind them? We won't come up!"

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."

Each man took his fire pan, put fire in it, laid incense on it and stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting with Moshe and Aharon.

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.

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."

The moment he finished speaking, the ground under them split apart -

the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all the people who had sided with Korach and everything they owned.

So they and everything they owned went down alive into Sh'ol, the earth closed over them and their existence in the community ceased.

All Isra'el around them fled at their shrieks, shouting, "The earth might swallow us too!"

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

But the very next day, the whole community of the people of Isra'el complained against Moshe and Aharon: "You have killed ADONAI's people!"

However, as the community was assembling against Moshe and Aharon, they looked in the direction of the tent of meeting and saw the cloud cover it and the glory of ADONAI