So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
Numbers 16:32 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households and [Korah and] all [his] men and all their possessions. [Num. 26:10, 11.] American Standard Version (1901) and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. Common English Bible The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, including every human that belonged to Korah and all their possessions. Catholic Public Domain Version And opening its mouth, it devoured them with their tabernacles and their entire substance. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance. |
So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
The earth is completely devastated; the earth is split open; the earth is violently shaken.
Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses, her crowds, and those who celebrate in her!
Each of you is to take his firepan, place incense on it, and present his firepan before the Lord #– #250 firepans. You and Aaron are each to present your firepan also.’
But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.’
Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.
They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.
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.
‘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.
‘Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites.
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.
But the earth helped the woman. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.