Numbers 16:41–49

Complaints of the People

⁴¹On the next day ^oall the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.” ⁴²Now it happened, when the congregation had gathered against Moses and Aaron, that they turned toward the tabernacle of meeting; and suddenly ^pthe cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. ⁴³Then Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of meeting.

⁴⁴And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁵“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”

And they fell on their faces.

⁴⁶So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make ⁷atonement for them; ^qfor wrath has gone out from the Lord. The plague has begun.” ⁴⁷Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and already the plague had begun among the people. So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people. ⁴⁸And he stood between the dead and the living; so ^rthe plague was stopped. ⁴⁹Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident.