Study Desk

From now on if foreigners who live among you want to make offerings by fire so the smell will be pleasing to the Lord , they must offer them the same way you do.

"‘The priest will remove that sin for all the Israelites so they will belong to the Lord . They are forgiven, because they didn't know they were sinning. For the wrong they did they brought offerings to the Lord , an offering by fire and a sin offering.

So all of the people of Israel and the foreigners living among them will be forgiven. No one meant to do wrong.

So all the people took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses.

They came as a group to speak to Moses and Aaron and said, "You have gone too far. All the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. So why do you put yourselves above all the people of the Lord ?"

So Korah, you and all your followers do this: Get some pans for burning incense.

So each man got his pan and put burning incense in it and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Meeting Tent.

"Move away from these men so I can destroy them quickly."

So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram were standing outside their tents with their wives, children, and little babies.

So Eleazar the priest gathered all the bronze pans that had been brought by the men who were burned up. He had the pans hammered into flat sheets to put on the altar,

"Move away from these people so I can destroy them quickly." So Moses and Aaron bowed facedown.

So Aaron did as Moses said. He ran to the middle of the people, where the sickness had already started among them. So Aaron offered the incense to remove their sin.

So Moses spoke to the Israelites. Each of the twelve leaders gave him a walking stick—one from each tribe—and Aaron's walking stick was among them.

So Moses brought out to the Israelites all the walking sticks from the Lord 's presence. They all looked, and each man took back his stick.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Put Aaron's walking stick back in front of the Ark of the Agreement. It will remind these people who are always turning against me to stop their complaining against me so they won't die."

So Moses obeyed what the Lord commanded him.

"You must take care of the Holy Place and the altar so that I won't become angry with the Israelites again.

"So you must use the ashes from the burnt offering to make that person clean again. Pour fresh water over the ashes into a jar.

There was no water for the people, so they came together against Moses and Aaron.

So Moses and Aaron left the people and went to the entrance of the Meeting Tent. There they bowed facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.