Numbers 26:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁰ The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men.  They serve as a warning sign.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died and the fire devoured 250 men; and they became a [warning] sign.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with Korah, when the community died and fire devoured 250 persons. They became a warning sign.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And the earth, opening its mouth, devoured Korah, with many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred fifty men. And a great miracle was wrought,

Numbers 26:10 Cross References

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Jeremiah 29:22

Based on what happens to them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will create a curse  that says, “May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire! ”

Ezekiel 14:8

I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people.  Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Numbers 16:2

250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.

Numbers 16:38

As for the firepans of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered sheets as plating for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord, and the firepans are holy. They will be a sign to the Israelites.’

Numbers 17:3

Write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff, because there is to be one staff for the head of each tribe.

Numbers 27:3

‘Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among Korah’s followers, who gathered together against the Lord.  Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.

Deuteronomy 11:6

and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

Deuteronomy 28:46

These curses will be a sign and a wonder  against you and your descendants for ever.

2 Peter 2:6

and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah  to ashes and condemned them to extinction,  making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;

Jude 1:7

Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah  and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions,  and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

1 Samuel 2:34

This will be the sign that will come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas:  both of them will die on the same day.