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Text -- Numbers 16:20-35 (NET)

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The Judgment on the Rebels
16:20 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 16:21 “Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.” 16:22 Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?” 16:23 So the Lord spoke to Moses: 16:24 “Tell the community: ‘Get away from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’” 16:25 Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him. 16:26 And he said to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins.” 16:27 So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers. 16:28 Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. 16:29 If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. 16:30 But if the Lord does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!” 16:31 When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open, 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods. 16:33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community. 16:34 All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “What if the earth swallows us too?” 16:35 Then a fire went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Aaron a son of Amram; brother of Moses,son of Amram (Kohath Levi); patriarch of Israel's priests,the clan or priestly line founded by Aaron
 · Abiram son of Eliab (Reuben); a rebel against Moses,son of Hiel, who died when his father began rebuilding Jericho
 · Dathan a man who was a son of Eliab of Reuben
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Korah a man who led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron.,son of Esau and Oholibamah,son of Eliphaz son of Esau,son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi,son of Hebron of Judah,son of Izhar (Amminadab) son of Kohath son of Levi
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law
 · Sheol the place of the dead


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Abiram | Korah | Moses | Dathan | AARON | Government | Ambition | REUBEN | PENTATEUCH, 2B | Blindness | TABERNACLE, B | Conspiracy | Minister | Priest | Levites | Israel | Incense | Citizenship | PENTATEUCH, 2A | AARON'S ROD | more
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NET Notes: Num 16:21 The group of people siding with Korah is meant, and not the entire community of the people of Israel. They are an assembly of rebels, their “com...

NET Notes: Num 16:22 The verb is the Qal imperfect יֶחֱטָא (yekheta’); it refers to the sinful rebellion of Korah, but Mose...

NET Notes: Num 16:24 The motif of “going up” is still present; here the Hebrew text says “go up” (the Niphal imperative – “go up yourse...

NET Notes: Num 16:25 Heb “rose up.”

NET Notes: Num 16:26 The impression is that the people did not hear what the Lord said to Moses, but only what Moses said to the people as a result. They saw the brilliant...

NET Notes: Num 16:27 The verb נִצָּבִים (nitsavim) suggests a defiant stance, for the word is often used in the sense...

NET Notes: Num 16:28 The Hebrew text simply has כִּי־לֹא מִלִּבִּי (k...

NET Notes: Num 16:29 The noun is פְּקֻדָּה (pÿquddah, “appointment, visitation”). The expression ref...

NET Notes: Num 16:30 The word “Sheol” in the Bible can be used four different ways: the grave, the realm of the departed [wicked] spirits or Hell, death in gen...

NET Notes: Num 16:31 The infinitive construct with the preposition lamed (ל) functions here as the direct object of the preceding infinitive. It tells what he finish...

NET Notes: Num 16:34 Heb “lest.”

NET Notes: Num 16:35 For a discussion of the fire of the Lord, see J. C. H. Laughlin, “The Strange Fire of Nadab and Abihu,” JBL 95 (1976): 559-65.

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