Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Numbers 16:13-25 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

13. Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us?

14. Thou best brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.

15. Moses therefore being very angry, raid to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.

16. And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart.

17. Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold his censer.

18. When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,

19. And had drawn up all the multitude against them to 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 among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them.

22. They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

23. And the Lord said to Moses:

24. Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron.

25. And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,