New Century Version

Numbers 16:6-12 New Century Version (NCV)

6. So Korah, you and all your followers do this: Get some pans for burning incense.

7. Tomorrow put fire and incense in them and take them before the Lord. He will choose the man who is holy. You Levites have gone too far.”

8. Moses also said to Korah, “Listen, you Levites.

9. The God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelites. He brought you near to himself to do the work in the Lord’s Holy Tent and to stand before all the Israelites and serve them. Isn’t that enough?

10. He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near to himself, yet now you want to be priests.

11. You and your followers have joined together against the Lord. Your complaint is not against Aaron.”

12. Then Moses called Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!