9. Are you not satisfied that the God of Israel has singled you out from the community of Israel, to have you draw near him to maintain the Lord’s tabernacle, and to attend upon the community and to serve them?
10. He has allowed you and your Levite kinsmen with you to approach him, and yet you seek the priesthood too.
11. It is therefore against the Lord that you and all your faction are conspiring. As for Aaron, what has he done that you should grumble against him?”
12. Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, but they answered, “We will not go.
13. Are you not satisfied that you have brought us here from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us perish in the wilderness, that now you must also lord it over us?