honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us
inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come
up.
15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have
not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and
Aaron, to morrow:
17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every
man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of youhis censer.
18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood
in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one
man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram.
25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these
wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan
and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and
their little children.
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I
havenot done themof mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of
all men; thenthe LORD hath not sent me.
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with
all that appertainunto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that
these men have provoked the LORD.
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground
clave asunder that wasunder them:
32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men
that appertainedunto Korah, and all theirgoods.
33 They, and all that appertainedto them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed
upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
34 And all Israel that wereround about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the
earth swallow us up also.
35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that
offered incense.
36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the
burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates fora
covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and

they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered;
and they were made broad plates fora covering of the altar:
40 To bea memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which isnot of the seed of
Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company:
as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron,
that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it,
and the glory of the LORD appeared.
43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they
fell upon their faces.
46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on
incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is
wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and,
behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement
for the people.
48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them
that died about the matter of Korah.
50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the
plague was stayed.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house
of theirfathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write
thou every man's name upon his rod.
3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall befor the head of
the house of their fathers.
4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where
I will meet with you.
5 And it shall come to pass, thatthe man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will
make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against
you.
6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod
apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, eventwelve rods: and the rod of
Aaron wasamong their rods.
7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and,
behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed
blossoms, and yielded almonds.
9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and
they looked, and took every man his rod.
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a
token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they
die not.

11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be
consumed with dying?
1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear
the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your
priesthood.
2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that
they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall
ministerbefore the tabernacle of witness.
3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come
nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation,
for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no
wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you
they aregiven asa gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the
altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto youas a
service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave
offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by
reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reservedfrom the fire: every oblation of theirs,
every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of
theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall bemost holy for thee and for thy sons.
10 In the most holy placeshalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
11 And this isthine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the
children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee,
by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them
which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
13 Andwhatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be
thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat ofit.
14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it
beof men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem,
and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine
estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which istwenty
gerahs.
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt
not redeem; they areholy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat
foran offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD,
have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it isa
covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.