He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.

“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.

Say to them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

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.

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!”