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So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He assembled seventy of the leaders and placed them around the Tent.

So all that day, all night, and all the next day, the people worked catching quails; no one gathered less than fifty bushels. They spread them out to dry all around the camp.

So I speak to him face-to-face, clearly and not in riddles; he has even seen my form! How dare you speak against my servant Moses?"

The Lord was angry with them; and so as he departed

So Moses cried out to the Lord , "O God, heal her!"

The Lord answered, "If her father had spit in her face, she would have to bear her disgrace for seven days. So let her be shut out of the camp for a week, and after that she can be brought back in."

So they said to one another, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt!"

Do not rebel against the Lord and don't be afraid of the people who live there. We will conquer them easily. The Lord is with us and has defeated the gods who protected them; so don't be afraid."

The Lord said to Moses, "How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed so many miracles among them?

So now, Lord , I pray, show us your power and do what you promised when you said,

The men Moses had sent to explore the land brought back a false report which caused the people to complain against the Lord . And so the Lord struck them with a disease, and they died.

So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded.

Do you consider it a small matter that the God of Israel has set you apart from the rest of the community, so that you can approach him, perform your service in the Lord 's Tent, and minister to the community and serve them?

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.

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."

So Eleazar the priest took the fire pans and had them beaten into thin plates to make a covering for the altar.

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a stick, one for each tribe, twelve in all, and Aaron's stick was put with them.