Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 146

NUMBERS. belonging to them, for fear you should Abiram came and stood at the opening they shall be warnings to the children sequently took the censers of brass which the burnt persons presented, Consequently Dathan and Abiram; but Dathan and of their tents, with their wives and spoke and said; ]EHOvAH has sent me todo all these things; for I have not done them by myself ;-·-if these die as all men die, and the fate of all men falls upon them, then the Evmn-mvmo has not sent me. But if Jn:-10vAH prepares it, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them, and all who are with them, and they go down alive to the grave,——then you will know that the EvxR·L1vtNG has rejected these And it occurred that as he finished

speaking these words, the ground split under them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their homes, and all the men who were with Korah, and all their wealth; and they, and all who were with them, rushed down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished in the midst of the public. Then all Israel who were around them tied with a The earth Fire also came out from ]EHOvAH and con- sumed the hundred and Hfty men as they offered incense. The EVER-1.1v1No then spoke to

Command Aliazar the son of Aaron the priest, to collect the censers from among the burnt people, and the fire, for they are sacredt I`he ceusers of these sinners are

for their lives, and you shall make of them thin spread plates for the altar, for they have been presented before the Evan-L1v1Nota¤d are sacred, and (Aliazar, the priest, sub- 17--18

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Parliament and command them to run out from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. 2 5 Moses therefore arose, and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the judges

26 of Israel went after him, and they 28 33 34 35 I 7 spoke to the Parliament saying; ‘ Remove from the halls of these depraved men, and touch nothing they came away from the tents of children, and infants. Then Moses ‘You shall learn by this whether and made plates of them for the And the children of Israel 5 shall remember the reason why a strange man, who is not of the family of Aaron, may not approach to olier incense before the EVER-L1v1NG, so that he may not be like Korah; and that they may know that }EHOVAH has spoken by the medium of Moses. EI]: yurliamzttt aah the ®r¤luh mutiny. But all the Parliament of the chi1— 6 dren of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron next day, exclaim- You have killed the People ofthe Evan-ravine! But when the Parliament collected 7 against Moses and Aaron, they re- treated to the Hall of Assembly, and then the cloud descended, and the Glory of the EvnR—L1v1NG appeared, so Moses and Aaron came into the front of the Hall of Assembly, and ]nr10vAH spoke to Moses; saying; Rise up from the midst of this

crowd and I will consume them with But they fell on their faces and

Take you a censer, and put fire into it from 0H the altar, and place incense, and go quickly and make an expiation for them, because anger is coming from the Evan-Lrvme to strike the profane. So Aaron did as Moses commanded,

and rushed ° into the midst of the meeting, where theastroke of destruc- tion was on the People, and offered incense and expiated for the nation, and stood between the living and the dead ;-—-and the stroke was arrested. But the dead from the stroke were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died over the a§ai1· I0 II I2

of Kcmh. Then Aaron returned to 15 Moses to the opening of the Hall of Assembly, and the stroke was arrested. Wxihul §i¤irz¤ nrhzrzh in he taken slung. The Evmz-Lxvmo also spoke to Moses, commanding; ‘Spea.k tothe children of Israel

and take the staves from each of their tribes. The staH` from each ancestral house; from each chief of an ancestral house.-~Twelve staves; and record the name. of each upon his staff. And record the name of

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