8. Moses continued to speak to Korah. “Listen, you Levites!
9. Do you consider it a small matter that the God of Israel has set you apart from the rest of the community, so that you can approach him, perform your service in the Lord's Tent, and minister to the community and serve them?
10. He has let you and all the other Levites have this honour — and now you are trying to get the priesthood too!
11. When you complain against Aaron, it is really against the Lord that you and your followers are rebelling.”
12. Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, but they said, “We will not come!
13. Isn't it enough that you have brought us out of the fertile land of Egypt to kill us here in the wilderness? Do you also have to lord it over us?
14. You certainly have not brought us into a fertile land or given us fields and vineyards as our possession, and now you are trying to deceive us. We will not come!”