27. So they got back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents, along with their wives and their sons and their little ones.
28. Moses said, "By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing.
29. If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.
30. But if the Lord brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord."
31. As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;
32. and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.
33. So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
34. All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, "The earth may swallow us up!"
35. Fire also came forth from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.
36. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
37. "Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he shall take up the censers out of the midst of the blaze, for they are holy; and you scatter the burning coals abroad.
38. As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel."
39. So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had offered, and they hammered them out as a plating for the altar,