27. So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
28. And Moses said, By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I do not act of my own accord:
29. If these men die the common death of all men or if [only] what happens to everyone happens to them, then the Lord has not sent me.
30. But if the Lord causes a new thing [to happen], and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead), then you shall understand that these men have provoked (spurned, despised) the Lord!
31. As soon as he stopped speaking, the ground under the offenders split apart
32. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households and [Korah and] all [his] men and all their possessions. [Num. 26:10, 11.]
33. They and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead); and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
34. And all Israel who were round about them fled at their cry, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
35. And fire came forth from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered the incense.
36. And the Lord said to Moses,
37. Speak to Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire at a distance. For the censers are hallowed–