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!
13. You have brought us out of a fertile land to this desert to kill us, and now you want to order us around.
14. You haven’t brought us into a fertile land; you haven’t given us any land with fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? No! We will not come!”
15. Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord, “Don’t accept their gifts. I have not taken anything from them, not even a donkey, and I have not done wrong to any of them.”