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So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah.

The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven because it was unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering before Yahweh for their unintentional sin.

And they put him under watch because it was not made clear what should be done to him.

So the entire community brought him out to a place outside the camp, and they stoned him to death just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

took two hundred and fifty men from the Israelites, leaders of the community summoned from the assembly, renowned men, and they confronted Moses.

They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "You take too much upon yourselves! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?"

Moses sent to call for Dathan and Abiram son of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!

And Moses said to Korah, "You and your entire company will be before Yahweh tomorrow, you and they and Aaron.

So each of them took his censer, and they put fire on them, and they placed incense on them; they stood at the doorway of the tent of the assembly of Moses and Aaron.

And they fell on their faces, and they said, "God, God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and you become angry toward the entire community?"

And so they moved away from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out standing at the doorway of their tents, with their wives, sons, and little children.

But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and all that belongs to them, and they go down alive to Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh."

They went down alive to Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

"Say to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ‘Take out the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside.

The censers of these who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them before Yahweh, they are holy; and they will be a sign for the Israelites.'"

Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly as plating for the altar;

Then, when the community had gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned to the tent of assembly, and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.

"Get away from the midst of this community, and I will finish them in an instant," but they fell on their faces.

Then Moses brought out to all the Israelites all the staffs before the presence of Yahweh, and they saw, and each man took his staff.

Moreover, bring your brothers with you, the tribe of Levi the tribe of your father, that they may be joined to you and minister to you, you and your sons with you before the tent of testimony.