Catholic Public Domain Version

Numbers 16:39-45 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

39. Therefore, Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, by which those whom the burning devoured had made an offering, and he formed them into plates, affixing them to the altar,

40. so that the sons of Israel would have, thereafter, something to admonish them, lest any stranger, or anyone who is not of the offspring of Aaron, might approach to offer incense to the Lord, and lest he endure what happened to Korah, and to all his congregation, when the Lord spoke to Moses.

41. Then, the following day, the entire multitude of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: "You have put to death the people of the Lord."

42. And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,

43. Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. But after they had entered it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

44. And the Lord said to Moses:

45. "Withdraw from the midst of this multitude, and I will destroy them immediately." And while they were lying on the ground,