The Congregation Murmurs and the Plague

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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.

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And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,

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Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

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And the Lord said to Moses:

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Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,

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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.

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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:

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And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.

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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.

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And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.

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