Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                  DATHAN

NUM 16:1  Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and 
certain Reubenites--Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of 
Peleth--became insolent

NUM 16:2  and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, 
well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council.

NUM 16:3  They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, 
"You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and 
the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD'S 
assembly?"

NUM 16:4  When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

NUM 16:5  Then he said to Korah and all his followers: "In the morning the 
LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that 
person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.

NUM 16:6  You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers

NUM 16:7  and tomorrow put fire and incense in them before the LORD. The 
man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too 
far!"

NUM 16:8  Moses also said to Korah, "Now listen, you Levites!

NUM 16:9  Isn't it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you 
from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do 
the work at the LORD'S tabernacle and to stand before the community and 
minister to them?

NUM 16:10  He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but 
now you are trying to get the priesthood too.

NUM 16:11  It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have 
banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?"

NUM 16:12  Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But 
they said, "We will not come!

NUM 16:13  Isn't it enough that you have brought us up out of a land 
flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert? And now you also want 
to lord it over us?

NUM 16:14  Moreover, you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk 
and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you 
gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!"

NUM 16:15  Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not 
accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor 
have I wronged any of them."

NUM 16:16  Moses said to Korah, "You and all your followers are to appear 
before the LORD tomorrow--you and they and Aaron.

NUM 16:17  Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it--250 
censers in all--and present it before the LORD. You and Aaron are to 
present your censers also."

NUM 16:18  So each man took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and 
stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

NUM 16:19  When Korah had gathered all his followers in opposition to them 
at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to 
the entire assembly.

NUM 16:20  The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

NUM 16:21  "Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to 
them at once."

NUM 16:22  But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, "O God, God of 
the spirits of all mankind, will you be angry with the entire assembly when 
only one man sins?"

NUM 16:23  Then the LORD said to Moses,

NUM 16:24  "Say to the assembly, 'Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan 
and Abiram.'"

NUM 16:25  Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of 
Israel followed him.

NUM 16:26  He warned the assembly, "Move back from the tents of these 
wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept 
away because of all their sins."

NUM 16:27  So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. 
Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children 
and little ones at the entrances to their tents.

NUM 16:28  Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD has 
sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:

NUM 16:29  If these men die a natural death and experience only what 
usually happens to men, then the LORD has not sent me.

NUM 16:30  But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the 
earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to 
them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these 
men have treated the LORD with contempt."

NUM 16:31  As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them 
split apart

NUM 16:32  and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their 
households and all Korah's men and all their possessions.

NUM 16:33  They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; 
the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the 
community.

NUM 16:34  At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, 
"The earth is going to swallow us too!"

NUM 16:35  And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who 
were offering the incense.

NUM 26:9  and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. The same 
Dathan and Abiram were the community officials who rebelled against Moses 
and Aaron and were among Korah's followers when they rebelled against the 
LORD.

DEU 11:6  and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the 
Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all 
Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every 
living thing that belonged to them.

PSA 106:17  The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company 
of Abiram.

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