Numbers 16:30 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁰ “But if יהוה  creates what is unheard of, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you shall know that these men have scorned יהוה.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ But if the Lord causes a new thing [to happen], and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead), then you shall understand that these men have provoked (spurned, despised) the Lord!

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³⁰ But if the LORD performs an act of creation, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and everything that belongs to them, so that they descend alive to their graves, then you’ll know that these men disrespected the LORD.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ But if the Lord accomplishes something new, so that the earth opens its mouth and swallows them whole, along with everything that belongs to them, and they descend alive into the underworld, then you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord."

Numbers 16:30 Cross References

Job 31:2

For what is the portion of Eloah from above, and the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3

Is it not calamity to the perverse, and strangeness to the workers of wickedness?

Psalm 124:3

“Then they would have swallowed us alive, In their burning rage against us;

Psalm 55:15

Let death come upon them; Let them go down into the grave alive, For evil is in their dwellings, in their midst.

Isaiah 28:21

For יהוה  rises up as at Mount Peratsim, and He is wroth as at the Valley of Giḇ

Isaiah 43:19

“See, I am doing what is new, let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 45:12

“I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, My hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded.

Isaiah 45:7

forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil. I, יהוה, do all these.’

Jeremiah 31:22

“Till when would you turn here and there, O backsliding daughter? For יהוה  has created what is new on earth: a woman encompasses a man!”

Ezekiel 31:14

so that none of the trees by the waters would exalt themselves because of their height, nor set their tops among the thick foliage, and that no tree which drinks water would ever be high enough to reach up to them. ‘For all of them shall be given up to death, to the depths of the earth, among the children of men who go down to the Pit.’

Numbers 16:31

And it came to be, as he ended speaking all these words, that the ground under them split apart,

Numbers 16:33

So they and all those with them went down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.