29. If these men die a normal death—the way men usually die—then the Lord did not really send me.
30. But if the Lord does something new, you will know they have insulted the Lord. The ground will open and swallow them. They will be buried alive and will go to the place of the dead, and everything that belongs to them will go with them.”
31. When Moses finished saying these things, the ground under the men split open.
32. The earth opened and swallowed them and all their families. All Korah’s men and everything they owned went down.
33. They were buried alive, going to the place of the dead, and everything they owned went with them. Then the earth covered them. They died and were gone from the community.
34. The people of Israel around them heard their screams and ran away, saying, “The earth will swallow us, too!”