Bible Verses About Miracles

ADONAI said to Moshe, "See, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, so that the people will be able to hear when I speak with you and also to trust in you forever."Moshe had told ADONAI what the people had said;

ADONAI said to Moshe, "How much longer is this people going to treat me with contempt? How much longer will they not trust me, especially considering all the signs I have performed among them?

none of the people who saw my glory and the signs I did in Egypt and in the desert, yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,

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."

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.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Speak to the people of Isra'el, and take from them staffs, one for each ancestral tribe from each leader of a tribe, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff;

and write Aharon's name on the staff of Levi, for each tribe's leader is to have one staff.

Put them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I meet with you.

The staff of the man I am going to choose will sprout buds - in this way I will put a stop to the complaints the people of Isra'el keep making against you."

Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, and all their leaders gave him staffs, one for each leader, according to their ancestral tribes, twelve staffs. Aharon's staff was among their staffs.

Moshe put the staffs before ADONAI in the tent of the testimony.

The next day Moshe went into the tent of the testimony, and there he saw that Aharon's staff for the house of Levi had budded - it had sprouted not only buds but flowers and ripe almonds as well.

Moshe brought out all the staffs from before ADONAI to all the people of Isra'el, and they looked, and each man took back his staff.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Return Aharon's staff to its place in front of the testimony. It is to be kept there as a sign to the rebels, so that they will stop grumbling against me and thus not die."

Moshe did this; he did as ADONAI had ordered him.

But the people of Isra'el said to Moshe, "Oh no! We're dead men! Lost! We're all lost!

Did any other people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and stay alive?

Or has God ever tried to go and take for himself a nation from the very bowels of another nation, by means of ordeals, signs, wonders, war, a mighty hand, an outstretched arm and great terrors -like all that ADONAI your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?