Numbers 16:2

16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders ¹  of the community, chosen from the assembly, ²  famous men. ³ 

Numbers 16:31-35

16:31 When he had finished ⁴  speaking ⁵  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 ⁶  who were around them fled at their cry, ⁷  for they said, “What if ⁸  the earth swallows us too?” 16:35 Then a fire ⁹  went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

Numbers 16:38

16:38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, ¹⁰  they must be made ¹¹  into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 27:3

27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness, although ¹²  he was not part of ¹³  the company of those that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died for his own sin, ¹⁴  and he had no sons.

Exodus 16:35

16:35 Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Psalms 106:17-18

106:17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;

it engulfed ¹⁵  the group led by Abiram. ¹⁶ 

106:18 Fire burned their group;

the flames scorched the wicked. ¹⁷ 

[16:2]  ¹ tn Heb “princes” (so KJV, ASV).

[16:2]  ² tn These men must have been counselors or judges of some kind.

[16:2]  ³ tn Heb “men of name,” or “men of renown.”

[16:31]  ⁴ tn The initial temporal clause is standard: It begins with the temporal indicator “and it was,” followed here by the Piel infinitive construct with the preposition and the subjective genitive suffix. “And it happened when he finished.”

[16:31]  ⁵ tn The infinitive construct with the preposition lamed (ל) functions here as the direct object of the preceding infinitive. It tells what he finished.

[16:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “all Israel.”

[16:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “voice.”

[16:34]  ⁸ tn Heb “lest.”

[16:35]  ⁹ tn 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.

[16:38]  ¹⁰ tn The expression is “in/by/against their life.” That they sinned against their life means that they brought ruin to themselves.

[16:38]  ¹¹ tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. But there is no expressed subject for “and they shall make them,” and so it may be treated as a passive (“they shall [must] be made”).

[27:3]  ¹² tn This clause begins with a vav (ו) on a pronoun, marking it out as a disjunctive vav. In this context it fits best to take it as a circumstantial clause introducing concession.

[27:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “in the midst of.”

[27:3]  ¹⁴ tn The word order is emphatic: “but in/on account of his own sins he died.”

[106:17]  ¹⁵ tn Or “covered.”

[106:17]  ¹⁶ tn Or “the assembly of Abiram.”

[106:18]  ¹⁷ sn Verses 16-18 describe the events of Num 16:1-40.