10. So He brought you close, along with all your fellow sons of Levi. But you are seeking the priesthood, too!
11. Therefore you and all your following are banding together against Adonai! Who then is Aaron—that you are grumbling against him?”
12. Then Moses sent word to call Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab. But they said, “We will not come!
13. Isn’t it enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey, only to kill us in the wilderness? And now you would lord it over us?
14. What’s more, you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you now gouge out the eyes of those men? We won’t come!”
15. Then Moses became very angry and said to Adonai, “Do not accept their offering. I haven’t taken from them a single donkey, nor have I wronged one of them!”
16. So Moses said to Korah, “You and your whole following are to appear before Adonai—you, they and Aaron—tomorrow!
17. Each man will take his censer and you are to put incense into them—250 censers total. You are to present it before Adonai, you and Aaron each presenting his censer.”
18. So each man took his censer, put fire and incense into it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
19. When Korah and all his following had assembled in opposition to them at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, then the glory of Adonai appeared to the entire assembly.
20. Then Adonai spoke to Moses and Aaron saying,
21. “Separate yourselves from among this assembly, so that I may consume them at once!”
22. But they fell on their faces and cried out, “O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, if one man sins, will you be angry with the entire community?”
23. Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying,