²³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

^{24 Ref} `Speak unto the company, saying, Go ye up from round about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'

^{25 Ref} And Moses riseth, and goeth unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel go after him,

^{26 Ref} and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.'

^{27 Ref} And they go up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, from round about, and Dathan, and Abiram have come out, standing at the opening of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their infants.

^{28 Ref} And Moses saith, `By this ye do know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works, that `they are' not from my own heart;

^{29 Ref} if according to the death of all men these die -- or the charge of all men is charged upon them -- Jehovah hath not sent me;

^{30 Ref} and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol -- then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'

^{31 Ref} And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which `is' under them cleaveth,

^{32 Ref} and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who `are' for Korah, and all the goods,

^{33 Ref} and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly;

^{34 Ref} and all Israel who `are' round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, `Lest the earth swallow us;'

^{35 Ref} and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume.