Numbers 16:23–35

²³So the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’ ”

²⁵Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. ²⁶And he spoke to the congregation, saying, ^a“Depart now from the tents of these wicked men! Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins.” ²⁷So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ^bchildren.

²⁸And Moses said: ^c“By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them ^dof my own will. ²⁹If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are ^evisited by the common fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. ³⁰But if the Lord creates ^fa new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they ^ggo down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.”

^31hNow it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, ³²and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and ⁱall the men with Korah, with all their goods. ³³So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly. ³⁴Then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up also!”

³⁵And ^ja fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.