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The priest shall perform the ritual of purification for the community, and they will be forgiven, because the mistake was unintentional and they brought their sin offering as a food offering to the Lord .

But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating the Lord with contempt, and they shall be put to death,

because they have rejected what the Lord said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.

They assembled before Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! All the members of the community belong to the Lord , and the Lord is with all of us. Why, then, Moses, do you set yourself above the Lord 's community?"

Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, but they said, "We will not come!

So they each took their fire pans, put live coals and incense on them, and stood at the entrance of the Tent with Moses and Aaron.

Then Korah gathered the whole community, and they stood facing Moses and Aaron at the entrance of the Tent. Suddenly the dazzling light of the Lord 's presence appeared to the whole community,

So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrance of their tents, with their wives and children.

But if the Lord does something unheard of, and the earth opens up and swallows them with all they own, so that they go down alive to the world of the dead, you will know that these men have rejected the Lord ."

So they went down alive to the world of the dead, with their possessions. The earth closed over them, and they vanished.

They became holy when they were presented at the Lord 's altar. So take the fire pans of these who were put to death for their sin, beat them into thin plates, and make a covering for the altar. It will be a warning to the people of Israel."

After they had all gathered to protest to Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tent and saw that the cloud was covering it and that the dazzling light of the Lord 's presence had appeared.

Moses took all the sticks and showed them to the Israelites. They saw what had happened, and each leader took his own stick back.

They are to fulfill their duties to you and their responsibilities for the Tent, but they must not have any contact with sacred objects in the Holy Place or with the altar. If they do, both they and you will be put to death.

They are to work with you and fulfill their responsibilities for all the service in the Tent, but no unqualified person may work with you.

But the first-born of cows, sheep, and goats are not to be bought back; they belong completely to me and are to be sacrificed. Throw their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an odor pleasing to me.

and they will give it to Eleazar the priest. It is to be taken outside the camp and killed in his presence.

Then someone who is ritually clean is to collect the ashes of the cow and put them in a ritually clean place outside the camp, where they are to be kept for the Israelite community to use in preparing the water for removing ritual uncleanness. This ritual is performed to remove sin.

They must purify themselves with the water for purification on the third day and on the seventh day, and then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on both the third and the seventh day, they will not be clean.

Those who touch a corpse and do not purify themselves remain unclean, because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile the Lord 's Tent, and they will no longer be considered God's people.