Catholic Public Domain Version

Numbers 16:16-25 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

16. And he said to Korah: "You and your congregation, stand alone before the Lord, and apart from Aaron, tomorrow.

17. Let each one of you take censers, and place incense in them, offering to the Lord two hundred fifty censers. Let Aaron also hold his censer."

18. When they had done this, Moses and Aaron stood up,

19. and, having crowded the entire multitude close to them at the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.

20. And the Lord, speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:

21. "Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, so that I may suddenly destroy them."

22. But they fell prone on their faces, and they said, "O most strong One, the God of the spirits of all flesh, should your anger rage against all, for the sin of one?"

23. And the Lord said to Moses:

24. "Instruct the entire people to separate from the tents of Korah, and Dathan, and Abiram."

25. And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram. And the elders of Israel followed him,