Numbers 16 Parallel Bible

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1	One day Korah son of Izhar, a descendant of Kohath son of Levi, conspired with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, from the tribe of Reuben.	Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.	Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—became insolent
2	They incited a rebellion against Moses, along with 250 other leaders of the community, all prominent members of the assembly.	And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men.	and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council.
3	They united against Moses and Aaron and said, “You have gone too far! The whole community of Israel has been set apart by the LORD, and he is with all of us. What right do you have to act as though you are greater than the rest of the LORD’s people?”	They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”	They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?”
4	When Moses heard what they were saying, he fell face down on the ground.	When Moses heard it, he fell on his face,	When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.
5	Then he said to Korah and his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will show us who belongs to him and who is holy. The LORD will allow only those whom he selects to enter his own presence.	and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.	Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.
6	Korah, you and all your followers must prepare your incense burners.	Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company;	You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers
7	Light fires in them tomorrow, and burn incense before the LORD. Then we will see whom the LORD chooses as his holy one. You Levites are the ones who have gone too far!”	put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!”	and tomorrow put burning coals and incense in them before the LORD. The man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!”
8	Then Moses spoke again to Korah: “Now listen, you Levites!	And Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi:	Moses also said to Korah, “Now listen, you Levites!
9	Does it seem insignificant to you that the God of Israel has chosen you from among all the community of Israel to be near him so you can serve in the LORD’s Tabernacle and stand before the people to minister to them?	is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them,	Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the LORD’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them?
10	Korah, he has already given this special ministry to you and your fellow Levites. Are you now demanding the priesthood as well?	and that he has brought you near him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?	He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.
11	The LORD is the one you and your followers are really revolting against! For who is Aaron that you are complaining about him?”	Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?”	It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”
12	Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, “We refuse to come before you!	And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they said, “We will not come up.	Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But they said, “We will not come!
13	Isn’t it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like your subjects?	Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?	Isn’t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us!
14	What’s more, you haven’t brought us into another land flowing with milk and honey. You haven’t given us a new homeland with fields and vineyards. Are you trying to fool these men? We will not come.”	Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”	Moreover, you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you want to treat these men like slaves? No, we will not come!”
15	Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not accept their grain offerings! I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, and I have never hurt a single one of them.”	And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them.”	Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.”
16	And Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers must come here tomorrow and present yourselves before the LORD. Aaron will also be here.	And Moses said to Korah, “Be present, you and all your company, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.	Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow—you and they and Aaron.
17	You and each of your 250 followers must prepare an incense burner and put incense on it, so you can all present them before the LORD. Aaron will also bring his incense burner.”	And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”	Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it—250 censers in all—and present it before the LORD. You and Aaron are to present your censers also.”
18	So each of these men prepared an incense burner, lit the fire, and placed incense on it. Then they all stood at the entrance of the Tabernacle with Moses and Aaron.	So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.	So each of them took his censer, put burning coals and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
19	Meanwhile, Korah had stirred up the entire community against Moses and Aaron, and they all gathered at the Tabernacle entrance. Then the glorious presence of the LORD appeared to the whole community,	Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.	When Korah had gathered all his followers in opposition to them at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to the entire assembly.
20	and the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,	And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,	The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
21	“Get away from all these people so that I may instantly destroy them!”	“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”	“Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.”
22	But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. “O God,” they pleaded, “you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?”	And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”	But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?”
23	And the LORD said to Moses,	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,	Then the LORD said to Moses,
24	“Then tell all the people to get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”	“Say to the congregation, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”	“Say to the assembly, ‘Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.’”
25	So Moses got up and rushed over to the tents of Dathan and Abiram, followed by the elders of Israel.	Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.	Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.
26	“Quick!” he told the people. “Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and don’t touch anything that belongs to them. If you do, you will be destroyed for their sins.”	And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”	He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
27	So all the people stood back from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Then Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents, together with their wives and children and little ones.	So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.	So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.
28	And Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things that I have done—for I have not done them on my own.	And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.	Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:
29	If these men die a natural death, or if nothing unusual happens, then the LORD has not sent me.	If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.	If these men die a natural death and suffer the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.
30	But if the LORD does something entirely new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have shown contempt for the LORD.”	But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.”	But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
31	He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.	And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.	As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart
32	The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.	And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.	and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.
33	So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.	So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.	They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.
34	All the people around them fled when they heard their screams. “The earth will swallow us, too!” they cried.	And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”	At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”
35	Then fire blazed forth from the LORD and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.	And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.	And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
36	And the LORD said to Moses,	Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,	The LORD said to Moses,
37	“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pull all the incense burners from the fire, for they are holy. Also tell him to scatter the burning coals.	“Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.	“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy—
38	Take the incense burners of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and hammer the metal into a thin sheet to overlay the altar. Since these burners were used in the LORD’s presence, they have become holy. Let them serve as a warning to the people of Israel.”	As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”	the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives. Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the LORD and have become holy. Let them be a sign to the Israelites.”
39	So Eleazar the priest collected the 250 bronze incense burners that had been used by the men who died in the fire, and the bronze was hammered into a thin sheet to overlay the altar.	So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,	So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,
40	This would warn the Israelites that no unauthorized person—no one who was not a descendant of Aaron—should ever enter the LORD’s presence to burn incense. If anyone did, the same thing would happen to him as happened to Korah and his followers. So the LORD’s instructions to Moses were carried out.	to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the LORD said to him through Moses.	as the LORD directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the LORD, or he would become like Korah and his followers.
41	But the very next morning the whole community of Israel began muttering again against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”	But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the LORD.”	The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the LORD’s people,” they said.
42	As the community gathered to protest against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tabernacle and saw that the cloud had covered it, and the glorious presence of the LORD appeared.	And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.	But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.
43	Moses and Aaron came and stood in front of the Tabernacle,	And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,	Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting,
44	and the LORD said to Moses,	and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,	and the LORD said to Moses,
45	“Get away from all these people so that I can instantly destroy them!” But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground.	“Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.	“Get away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.” And they fell facedown.
46	And Moses said to Aaron, “Quick, take an incense burner and place burning coals on it from the altar. Lay incense on it, and carry it out among the people to purify them and make them right with the LORD. The LORD’s anger is blazing against them—the plague has already begun.”	And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”	Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started.”
47	Aaron did as Moses told him and ran out among the people. The plague had already begun to strike down the people, but Aaron burned the incense and purified the people.	So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.	So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.
48	He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped.	And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.	He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.
49	But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the affair involving Korah.	Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.	But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.
50	Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.	And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.	Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.
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