Numbers 16:32

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and the eretz opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korach, and all their goods.

King James Version
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Lexham English Bible
The land opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their houses and every person that belonged to Korah and all the property.

New Century Version
The earth opened and swallowed them and all their families. All Korah's men and everything they owned went down.

New English Translation
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah's men, and all their goods.

Amplified Bible
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all the men who supported Korah, with all their possessions.

New American Standard Bible
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, and all the people who belonged to Korah with all their possessions.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, with their families, and all the men that were wt Korah, and all their goods.

Legacy Standard Bible
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

Contemporary English Version
and swallowed them alive, together with their families and everything they owned. Then the ground closed back up, and they were gone.

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

Darby Translation
And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.

Easy-to-Read Version
It was as if the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them. All of Korah's men, their families, and everything they owned went down into the earth.

English Standard Version
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

George Lamsa Translation
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households and all the men who were with Korah and all their goods.

Good News Translation
and swallowed them and their families, together with all of Korah's followers and their possessions.

Christian Standard Bible®
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions.

Literal Translation
and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, and their houses, and all the men who were for Korah, and all their possessions.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& the earth opened hir wouth, & swalowed the, wt their houses, & all the me yt were wt Corah, & all their substauce,

American Standard Version
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Bible in Basic English
And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the earth opened her mouth, and swalowed them vp, and their houses, and all the men that were with Corah, and all their goodes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

King James Version (1611)
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them vp, and their houses, and all the men that appertained vnto Korah, and all their goods.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Core, and their cattle.

English Revised Version
and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Berean Standard Bible
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households-all Korah's men and all their possessions.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the erthe openyde his mouth, and deuowride hem, with her tabernaclis, and al the catel `of hem;

Young's Literal Translation
and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who [are] for Korah, and all the goods,

Update Bible Version
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all of man that belonged to Korah, and all their goods.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] to Korah, and [all their] goods.

World English Bible
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

New King James Version
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods.

New Living Translation
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.

New Life Bible
The earth opened its mouth and took them and all those of their house, and all Korah's men and all that belonged to them.

New Revised Standard
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households—everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them, and their households, - and all the human beings who pertained unto Korah, with all their goods:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.

Revised Standard Version
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

Contextual Overview

²³ God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the community. Tell them, Back off from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." ²⁵Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram. The leaders of Israel followed him. He then spoke to the community: "Back off from the tents of these bad men; don't touch a thing that belongs to them lest you be carried off on the flood of their sins." ²⁷ So they all backed away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram by now had come out and were standing at the entrance to their tents with their wives, children, and babies. ²⁸Moses continued to address the community: "This is how you'll know that it was God who sent me to do all these things and that it wasn't anything I cooked up on my own. If these men die a natural death like all the rest of us, you'll know that it wasn't God who sent me. But if God does something unprecedented—if the ground opens up and swallows the lot of them and they are pitched alive into Sheol—then you'll know that these men have been insolent with God ." ³¹The words were hardly out of his mouth when the Earth split open. Earth opened its mouth and in one gulp swallowed them down, the men and their families, all the human beings connected with Korah, along with everything they owned. And that was the end of them, pitched alive into Sheol. The Earth closed up over them and that was the last the community heard of them. ³⁴ At the sound of their cries everyone around ran for dear life, shouting, "We're about to be swallowed up alive!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the earth: Numbers 16:30, Genesis 4:11, Isaiah 5:14, Revelation 12:16

all the: Numbers 16:17, Numbers 26:11, Numbers 27:3, 1 Chronicles 6:22, 1 Chronicles 6:37, Psalms 84:1, Psalms 85:1, Psalms 88:1, *titles

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:7 - all Exodus 6:21 - Korah Exodus 6:24 - Korah Exodus 32:28 - there fell Leviticus 10:2 - they died Numbers 4:18 - General Numbers 16:49 - fourteen thousand 2 Samuel 20:19 - swallow Psalms 42:1 - the sons

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up,.... Dathan and Abiram, their wives, sons, and little ones, that stood at the door of their tents with them, and all their goods, as follows: the earth, as if it was a living creature or a beast of prey, opened its mouth and swallowed them up, as such a creature does its prey:

and their houses; which may be meant both of their families or households, and of the tents they dwelt in, which were their houses; see Deuteronomy 1:6;

and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah: not Korah himself, for he was with the two hundred fifty men that had censers, and with Aaron at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation offering incense, and thereby making trial to whom the priesthood belonged; and who, it is highly probable, perished by fire with the two hundred fifty men, as Josephus, Aben Ezra, and others are of opinion; but the family of Korah, and not all of them, for his sons died not at that time,

Numbers 26:11; and there were of his posterity in the times of David, to whom several of the psalms are inscribed, Psalms 42:1; these were either out of the way upon business, the providence of God so ordering it for their safety; or they disliked the proceedings of their father, and joined not with him; or if they did at first, repented of it and forsook him, as it is probable on of the tribe of Reuben also did, since no mention is made of him in the destruction:

and all [their] goods: their household goods, their substance and riches, their gold, silver, cattle, and whatever they were possessed of: a very extraordinary case this and which perhaps gave rise to some fabulous things among the Heathens; however, if they can be credited, this ought not to be thought incredible; as Amphiaraus, who with his chariot and its rider are said to be swallowed up in the earth, struck by a thunderbolt from Jupiter, and were never seen more w; and other stories are told of persons praying to their deities for secrecy and shelter, and the earth has opened and hid them; as Althemenes, when he had slain his father x; and the nymph Thalia pregnant by Jupiter, who, for fear of Juno, wished the earth might open and take her in, and it accordingly did, as is reported y.

w Apollodorus de Deorum Origine, l. 3. p. 157. x lb. p. 134. y Macrob. Saturnal. l. 5. c. 19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All the men ... - Not his sons (see Numbers 26:11), but all belonging to him who had associated themselves with him in this rebellion.