6. Korah, you and all your followers are to do this: take firepans, and tomorrow
7. place fire in them and put incense on them before the Lord. Then the man the Lord chooses will be the one who is set apart. It is you Levites who have gone too far! ”
8. Moses also told Korah, “Now listen, Levites!
9. Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the Israelite community to bring you near to Himself, to perform the work at the Lord’s tabernacle, and to stand before the community to minister to them?
10. He has brought you near, and all your fellow Levites who are with you, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.
11. Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the Lord! As for Aaron, who is he that you should complain about him? ”
12. Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!
13. Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?
14. Furthermore, you didn’t bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey or give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come! ”
15. Then Moses became angry and said to the Lord, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”