{You killed your brother,} and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. So now, I will cause bad things to happen to that ground.
Numbers 16:32 - Easy To Read Version It was like the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them. All of Korah’s men, their families, and everything they owned went down into the earth. 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. |
{You killed your brother,} and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. So now, I will cause bad things to happen to that ground.
These were Kohath’s descendants: [51] Amminadab was Kohath’s son. Korah was Amminadab’s son. Assir was Korah’s son.
Zephaniah was Tahath’s son. Tahath was Assir’s son. Assir was Ebiasaph’s son. Ebiasaph was Korah’s son.
So God punished those jealous people.\par The ground opened up\par and swallowed Dathan.\par Then the ground closed up\par and covered Abiram’s group.\par
People dig and plow the ground.\par And spread the dirt around.\par In the same way, our bones\par will be spread around in their grave.\par
Lord All-Powerful, your temple {\cf2\super [483]} \par is really lovely.\par
Lord, be kind to your country.\par Jacob’s \{people are exiles {\cf2\super [493]} \par in a foreign country.\}\par Bring the exiles back to their country.\par
Lord God, you are my Savior.\par I have been praying to you\par day and night.\par
Then \{they will die and\} Sheol, {\cf2\super [53]} \{the place of death\}, will get more and more people. That \{place of death\} will open her mouth with no limit. And all those people will go down into Sheol.”
Each of you must bring a pan, put incense [204] on it, and present it to the Lord. There will be 250 pans {for the leaders} and one pan for you and one pan for Aaron.”
But if the Lord causes these men to die in a different way—something new—then you will know that these men have truly sinned against the Lord. {This is the proof:} the earth will open and swallow these men. They will go down to their grave still alive. And everything that belongs to these men will go down with them.”
When Moses finished saying these things, the ground under the men opened.
Those people went down into their grave alive. Everything they owned went with them. Then the earth closed over them. They were finished—gone from the camp!
But 14,700 people died from that sickness—and that is not counting the people who died because of Korah.
That was the time when the earth opened and swallowed Korah and all of his followers. And 250 men died! That was a warning to all the people of Israel.
“Our father died while we were traveling through the desert. Our father died a natural death. He was not one of the men that joined Korah’s group. (Korah was the man who turned against the Lord.) But our father had no sons.
You saw what the Lord did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab from Reuben’s family. All the people of Israel watched as the ground opened up like a mouth and swallowed those men. It swallowed their families, their tents, and all of their servants and animals.
But the earth helped the woman. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that came from the mouth of the giant snake.