23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

24 “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘aGet back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.’ ”

25 Then Moses arose and went to Dathan and Abiram, with the elders of Israel following him,

26 and he spoke to the congregation, saying, “aDepart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, bor you will be swept away in all their sin.”

27 So they got back from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the doorway of their tents, along with their wives and atheir sons and their little ones.

28 Moses said, “By this you shall know that athe Lord has sent me to do all these deeds; for this is not 1my doing.

29 “If these men die 1the death of all men or 2if they suffer the afate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

30 “But aif the Lord 1brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they bdescend alive into 2Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord.”

31 As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;

32 and athe earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and ball the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to 1Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

34 All Israel who were around them fled at their 1outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us up!”