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The Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valley. So tomorrow you must leave this place. Go back to the desert on the road to the Red Sea."

So tell them, ‘The Lord says that he will surely do all those things to you that you complained about. This is what will happen to you:

So none of you will ever enter and live in the land that I promised to give you. Only Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun will enter that land.

"I am the Lord , and I have spoken. And I promise that I will do these things to all these evil people. They have come together against me. So they will all die here in this desert."

The men were responsible for spreading the trouble among the Israelites. So the Lord caused a sickness to kill all those men.

Don't go into that land. The Lord is not with you, so your enemies will easily defeat you.

The Amalekites and Canaanites will fight against you there. You have turned away from the Lord , so he will not be with you when you fight them. And you will all be killed in battle."

"So the priest will make the whole community of Israel pure, and they will be forgiven for the mistake they made. Since they made the mistake, they must bring a gift and a sin offering to the Lord .

They thought the Lord 's word was not important, so they broke his commands. That is why they must be separated from their people—they must bear the responsibility for their guilt."

So the people took him outside the camp and killed him with stones. They did this just as the Lord commanded Moses.

So Korah, you and all your followers should do this:

You and your followers have joined together and turned against the Lord ! Did Aaron do anything wrong? No, so why are you complaining against Aaron?"

So Moses became very angry. He said to the Lord , "I never did anything wrong to these people. I never took anything from them—not even a donkey! Don't accept their gifts!"

So each man got a pan and put burning incense in it. Then they stood at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. Moses and Aaron also stood there.

So the men moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram went to their tents. They stood outside of their tents with their wives, children, and little babies.

The Israelites heard the cries of the men being destroyed. So they all ran in different directions and said, "The earth will swallow us too!"

So Eleazar the priest gathered together all the bronze pans that the men had brought. These men were all burned up, but the pans were still there. Then Eleazar told some men to hammer the pans into flat metal. Then he put the metal sheets on the altar.

"Move away from these people so that I can destroy them now." So Moses and Aaron bowed with their faces to the ground.

So Aaron got the incense and the fire, and he ran to the middle of the people. But the sickness had already started among them. So Aaron stood between the dead and those who were still alive. He did what Moses said to remove their sin, and the sickness stopped there.

So the terrible sickness was stopped, and Aaron went back to Moses at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.