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They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and יהוה is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above יהוה's congregation?"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.3", "ref": "Numbers 16:3", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 236458.97689702775 }
When Moses heard this, he fell on his face. * he fell on his face Perhaps in the sense of "his face fell."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.4", "ref": "Numbers 16:4", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 88672.97519245019 }
Then he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, "Come morning, יהוה will make known who is [God's] and who is holy by granting direct access; the one whom [God] has chosen will be granted access.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.5", "ref": "Numbers 16:5", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 66922.93484875749 }
Do this: You, Korah and all your * your Lit. "his." band, take fire pans,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.6", "ref": "Numbers 16:6", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 40674.60214828464 }
and tomorrow put fire in them and lay incense on them before יהוה. Then the candidate * candidate Lit. "participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation"; trad. "man." See the Dictionary under 'ish . whom יהוה chooses, he shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.7", "ref": "Numbers 16:7", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 44172.207351075725 }
Moses said further to Korah, "Hear me, sons of Levi.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.8", "ref": "Numbers 16:8", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 66301.8551142787 }
Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has set you apart from the community of Israel and given you direct access, to perform the duties of יהוה's Tabernacle and to minister to the community and serve them?	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.9", "ref": "Numbers 16:9", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 37820.59998721122 }
Now that [God] has advanced you and all your fellow Levites with you, do you seek the priesthood too?	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.10", "ref": "Numbers 16:10", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 34619.197636609584 }
Truly, it is against יהוה that you and all your company have banded together. For who is Aaron that you should rail against him?"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.11", "ref": "Numbers 16:11", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 37734.323839866964 }
Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab; but they said, "We will not come!	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.12", "ref": "Numbers 16:12", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 96067.75316173129 }
Is it not enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us die in the wilderness, that you would also lord it over us?	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.13", "ref": "Numbers 16:13", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 49371.936067970564 }
Even if you had * Even if you had Lit. "You have not even." brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey, and given us possession of fields and vineyards, should you gouge out the eyes of those involved? * gouge out the eyes of those involved Gouging out the eyes was punishment for runaway slaves and rebellious vassals; cf. 2 Kings 25.4–7; Jer. 39.4–7; 52.7–11. "Those involved" (NJPS "those men"; see the Dictionary under 'ish ) is a euphemism for self-reference; cf. 1 Sam. 29.4. We will not come!"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.14", "ref": "Numbers 16:14", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 67474.42834197344 }
Moses was much aggrieved and he said to יהוה, "Pay no regard to their oblation. I have not taken the ass of any one of them, nor have I wronged any one of them."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.15", "ref": "Numbers 16:15", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 78392.85482692497 }
And Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow, you and all your company appear before יהוה, you and they and Aaron.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.16", "ref": "Numbers 16:16", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 51059.799930901114 }
Each of you take your fire pan and lay incense on it, and each of you bring that fire pan before יהוה, two hundred and fifty fire pans; you and Aaron also [bring] your fire pans."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.17", "ref": "Numbers 16:17", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 32356.73744331719 }
They each took their fire pan, put fire in it, laid incense on it, and took a place at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, as did Moses and Aaron.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.18", "ref": "Numbers 16:18", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 30264.167248083482 }
Korah gathered the whole community against them at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Then the Presence of יהוה appeared to the whole community,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.19", "ref": "Numbers 16:19", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 57539.390912792034 }
and יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.20", "ref": "Numbers 16:20", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 74951.23814980216 }
"Stand back from this community that I may annihilate them in an instant!"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.21", "ref": "Numbers 16:21", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 59710.62686692647 }
But they fell on their faces and said, "O God, Source * Source Lit. "God." of the breath of all flesh! When one member * member Lit. "participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation." Trad. "man." See the Dictionary under 'ish . sins, will You be wrathful with the whole community?"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.22", "ref": "Numbers 16:22", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 60712.710020055 }
יהוה spoke to Moses, saying,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.23", "ref": "Numbers 16:23", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 33830.99754798652 }
"Speak to the community and say: Withdraw from about the abodes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.24", "ref": "Numbers 16:24", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 31847.970927941242 }
Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, the elders of Israel following him.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.25", "ref": "Numbers 16:25", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 46421.181585516286 }
He addressed the community, saying, "Move away from the tents of these wicked men * wicked men Or "guilty parties"—alluding to the crime of insurrection, for which they are about to be punished. Cf. Exod. 2.13; Deut. 25.1; 2 Sam. 4.11. On "men," see note at Gen. 19.5. and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you be wiped out for all their sins."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.26", "ref": "Numbers 16:26", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 45879.53152224568 }
So they withdrew from about the abodes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Now Dathan and Abiram had come out and they stood at the entrance of their tents, with their wives, their adult children, * adult children So Ibn Ezra. Lit. "children." and their little ones.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.27", "ref": "Numbers 16:27", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 44066.07009726908 }
And Moses said, "By this you shall know that it was יהוה who sent me to do all these things; that they are not of my own devising:	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.28", "ref": "Numbers 16:28", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 81263.12922660608 }
if these people's death is that of all humankind, if their lot is humankind's common fate, it was not יהוה who sent me.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.29", "ref": "Numbers 16:29", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 39215.94215502702 }
But if יהוה brings about something unheard-of, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, you shall know that those involved have spurned יהוה."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.30", "ref": "Numbers 16:30", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 67173.15329048662 }
Scarcely had he finished speaking all these words when the ground under them burst asunder,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.31", "ref": "Numbers 16:31", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 49878.89539009373 }
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all Korah's people and all their possessions.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.32", "ref": "Numbers 16:32", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 71229.75709662442 }
They went down alive into Sheol, with all that belonged to them; the earth closed over them and they vanished from the midst of the congregation.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.33", "ref": "Numbers 16:33", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 46765.011623028346 }
All Israel around them fled at their shrieks, for they said, "The earth might swallow us!"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.34", "ref": "Numbers 16:34", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 29712.211906726487 }
And a fire went forth from יהוה and consumed the two hundred and fifty contestants * contestants Lit. "participants whose involvement defines the depicted situation." Trad. "men." See the Dictionary under 'ish . offering the incense.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16.35", "ref": "Numbers 16:35", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 46251.41974666431 }
* In some editions, the following passage is counted as the continuation of chapter 16; see note at v. 16, below. יהוה spoke to Moses, saying:	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.1", "ref": "Numbers 17:1", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 20908.310238900394 }
Order Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the fire pans—for they have become sacred—from among the charred remains; and scatter the coals abroad.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.2", "ref": "Numbers 17:2", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4297.613360090411 }
* Meaning of parts of verse uncertain. [Remove] the fire pans of those who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and let them be made into hammered sheets as plating for the altar—for once they have been used for offering to יהוה, they have become sacred—and let them serve as a warning to the people of Israel.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.3", "ref": "Numbers 17:3", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 6527.590905597073 }
Eleazar the priest took the copper fire pans which had been used for offering by those who died in the fire; and they were hammered into plating for the altar,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.4", "ref": "Numbers 17:4", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4271.765694126069 }
as יהוה had ordered him through Moses. It was to be a reminder to the Israelites, so that no outsider—one not of Aaron's offspring—should presume to offer incense before יהוה and suffer the fate of Korah and his band.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.5", "ref": "Numbers 17:5", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 6660.388387742122 }
Next day the whole Israelite community railed against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You two have brought death upon יהוה's people!"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.6", "ref": "Numbers 17:6", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 24563.463680798002 }
But as the community gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting; the cloud had covered it and the Presence of יהוה appeared.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.7", "ref": "Numbers 17:7", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 3976.5441128434554 }
When Moses and Aaron reached the Tent of Meeting,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.8", "ref": "Numbers 17:8", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2635.7479425215015 }
יהוה spoke to Moses, saying,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.9", "ref": "Numbers 17:9", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 12779.388946501274 }
"Remove yourselves from this community, that I may annihilate them in an instant." They fell on their faces.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.10", "ref": "Numbers 17:10", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4688.595743604641 }
Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take the fire pan, and put on it fire from the altar. Add incense and take it quickly to the community and make expiation for them. For wrath has gone forth from יהוה: the plague has begun!"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.11", "ref": "Numbers 17:11", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 8808.281249223355 }
Aaron took it, as Moses had ordered, and ran to the midst of the congregation, where the plague had begun among the people. He put on the incense and made expiation for the people;	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.12", "ref": "Numbers 17:12", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 7274.129873095932 }
he stood between the dead and the living until the plague was checked.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.13", "ref": "Numbers 17:13", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4723.011845349862 }
Those who died of the plague came to fourteen thousand and seven hundred, aside from those who died on account of Korah.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.14", "ref": "Numbers 17:14", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2992.6914376712584 }
Aaron then returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, since the plague was checked.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.15", "ref": "Numbers 17:15", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2613.148830668298 }
* This verse constitutes 17.1 in some editions. יהוה spoke to Moses, saying:	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.16", "ref": "Numbers 17:16", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 24481.182479008963 }
Speak to the Israelite people and take from them—from the chieftains of their ancestral houses * of their ancestral houses I.e., of their tribes. —one staff for each chieftain of an ancestral house: twelve staffs in all. Inscribe each one's name on his staff,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.17", "ref": "Numbers 17:17", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4843.843190879616 }
there being one staff for each head of an ancestral house; also inscribe Aaron's name on the staff of Levi.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.18", "ref": "Numbers 17:18", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 3017.796063053787 }
Deposit them in the Tent of Meeting before the Pact, where I meet with you.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.19", "ref": "Numbers 17:19", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2482.989101228155 }
The staff of the candidate * candidate See note at 16.7. whom I choose shall sprout, and I will rid * I will rid Meaning of Heb. wa-hashikkothi uncertain. Myself of the incessant mutterings of the Israelites against you.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.20", "ref": "Numbers 17:20", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 3322.340800246742 }
Moses spoke thus to the Israelites. Their chieftains gave him a staff for each chieftain of an ancestral house, twelve staffs in all; among these staffs was that of Aaron.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.21", "ref": "Numbers 17:21", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 5530.473246439157 }
Moses deposited the staffs before יהוה, in the Tent of the Pact.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.22", "ref": "Numbers 17:22", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 3194.3383168324513 }
The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Pact, and there the staff of Aaron of the house of Levi had sprouted: it had brought forth sprouts, produced blossoms, and borne almonds.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.23", "ref": "Numbers 17:23", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 8811.14060000173 }
Moses then brought out all the staffs from before יהוה to all the Israelites; each identified and recovered his staff.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.24", "ref": "Numbers 17:24", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 3989.754015694936 }
יהוה said to Moses, "Put Aaron's staff back before the Pact, to be kept as a lesson to rebels, so that their mutterings against Me may cease, lest they die."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.25", "ref": "Numbers 17:25", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 24738.671068555017 }
This Moses did; just as יהוה had commanded him, so he did.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.26", "ref": "Numbers 17:26", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2658.4133833736105 }
But the Israelites said to Moses, "Lo, we perish! We are lost, all of us lost!	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.27", "ref": "Numbers 17:27", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 5083.251588499369 }
Everyone who so much as ventures near יהוה's Tabernacle must die. Alas, we are doomed to perish!"	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17.28", "ref": "Numbers 17:28", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 3442.5536247087257 }
יהוה said to Aaron: You and your sons and the ancestral house under your charge shall bear any guilt connected with the sanctuary; you and your sons alone shall bear any guilt connected with your priesthood.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.1", "ref": "Numbers 18:1", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 7877.751355299323 }
You shall also associate with yourself your kinsmen the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, to be attached to you and to minister to you, while you and your sons under your charge are before the Tent of the Pact. * while you and your sons … Tent of the Pact Force of Heb. uncertain.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.2", "ref": "Numbers 18:2", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1095.146411944786 }
They shall discharge their duties to you and to the Tent as a whole, but they must not have any contact with the furnishings of the Shrine or with the altar, lest both they and you die.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.3", "ref": "Numbers 18:3", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 733.7631121789593 }
They shall be attached to you and discharge the duties of the Tent of Meeting, all the service of the Tent; but no outsider shall intrude upon you	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.4", "ref": "Numbers 18:4", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1002.9956234988513 }
as you discharge the duties connected with the Shrine and the altar, that wrath may not again strike the Israelites.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.5", "ref": "Numbers 18:5", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 626.882515020804 }
I hereby take your fellow Levites from among the Israelites; they are assigned to you in dedication to יהוה, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting;	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.6", "ref": "Numbers 18:6", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1509.0237041690455 }
while you and your sons shall be careful to perform your priestly duties in everything pertaining to the altar and to what is behind the curtain. I make your priesthood a service of dedication; any outsider who encroaches shall be put to death.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.7", "ref": "Numbers 18:7", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2350.3857455445836 }
יהוה spoke further to Aaron: I hereby give you charge of My gifts, all the sacred donations of the Israelites; I grant them to you and to your sons as a perquisite, * perquisite See the first note at Lev. 7.35. a due for all time.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.8", "ref": "Numbers 18:8", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4109.717168113486 }
This shall be yours from the most holy sacrifices, the offerings by fire: * the offerings by fire Force of Heb. min ha-'esh uncertain; lit. "from the fire." every such offering that they render to Me as most holy sacrifices, namely, every meal offering, sin offering, and guilt offering of theirs, shall belong to you and your sons.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.9", "ref": "Numbers 18:9", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 878.7191005170924 }
You shall partake of them as most sacred donations: only males may eat them; you shall treat them as consecrated. * you shall treat them as consecrated Or "they are consecrated for your use."	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.10", "ref": "Numbers 18:10", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 664.6198730138144 }
This, too, shall be yours: the gift offerings * gift offerings Cf. Lev. 7.29ff. of their contributions, all the elevation offerings of the Israelites, I give to you [and your wives], to your sons, and to the daughters that are with you, as a due for all time; everyone of your household who is pure may eat it.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.11", "ref": "Numbers 18:11", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1183.1632054233135 }
All the best of the new oil, wine, and grain—the choice parts that they present to יהוה —I give to you.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.12", "ref": "Numbers 18:12", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 880.4377509475271 }
The first fruits of everything in their land, that they bring to יהוה, shall be yours; everyone of your household who is pure may eat them.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.13", "ref": "Numbers 18:13", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 798.3901403103969 }
Everything that has been proscribed in Israel * proscribed in Israel See Lev. 27.28. shall be yours.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.14", "ref": "Numbers 18:14", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 758.6468976364933 }
The first [male] issue of the womb of every being, human or beast, that is offered to יהוה, shall be yours; but you shall have the male first-born of human beings redeemed, and you shall also have the firstling of impure animals redeemed.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.15", "ref": "Numbers 18:15", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 5067.514276081294 }
Take as their redemption price, * their redemption price I.e., for human first-born; cf. Num. 3.44ff. For animals see Exod. 34.19–20. from the age of one month up, the money equivalent of five shekels by the sanctuary weight, which is twenty gerahs .	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.16", "ref": "Numbers 18:16", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2154.295758442156 }
But the firstlings of cattle, sheep, or goats may not be redeemed; they are consecrated. You shall dash their blood against the altar, and turn their fat into smoke as an offering by fire for a pleasing odor to יהוה.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.17", "ref": "Numbers 18:17", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 700.8527413469105 }
But their meat shall be yours: it shall be yours like the breast of elevation offering and like the right thigh.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.18", "ref": "Numbers 18:18", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 533.34420251704 }
All the sacred gifts that the Israelites set aside for יהוה I give to you, to your sons, and to the daughters that are with you, as a due for all time. It shall be an everlasting covenant of salt * covenant of salt See Lev. 2.13. before יהוה for you and for your offspring as well.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.19", "ref": "Numbers 18:19", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4475.758291612401 }
And יהוה said to Aaron: You shall, however, have no territorial share among them or own any portion in their midst; I am your portion and your share among the Israelites.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.20", "ref": "Numbers 18:20", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 2013.5832459280593 }
And to the Levites I hereby give all the tithes in Israel as their share in return for the services that they perform, the services of the Tent of Meeting.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.21", "ref": "Numbers 18:21", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 10858.721146252798 }
Henceforth, Israelites shall not trespass on the Tent of Meeting, and thus incur guilt and die:	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.22", "ref": "Numbers 18:22", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 741.2347548528777 }
only Levites shall perform the services of the Tent of Meeting; others * others Lit. "they." would incur guilt. It is the law for all time throughout the ages. But they shall have no territorial share among the Israelites;	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.23", "ref": "Numbers 18:23", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 814.8129512251917 }
for it is the tithes set aside by the Israelites as a gift to יהוה that I give to the Levites as their share. Therefore I have said concerning them: They shall have no territorial share among the Israelites.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.24", "ref": "Numbers 18:24", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1080.037216790082 }
יהוה spoke to Moses, saying:	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.25", "ref": "Numbers 18:25", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 823.4318453790421 }
Speak to the Levites and say to them: When you receive from the Israelites their tithes, which I have assigned to you as your share, you shall set aside from them one-tenth of the tithe as a gift to יהוה.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.26", "ref": "Numbers 18:26", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1545.0337521894173 }
This shall be accounted to you as your gift. As with the new grain from the threshing floor or the flow from the vat,	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.27", "ref": "Numbers 18:27", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 957.1386345071182 }
so shall you on your part set aside a gift for יהוה from all the tithes that you receive from the Israelites; and from them you shall bring the gift for יהוה to Aaron the priest.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.28", "ref": "Numbers 18:28", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1610.1332743283103 }
You shall set aside all gifts due to יהוה from everything that is donated to you, from each thing its best portion, the part thereof that is to be consecrated.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.29", "ref": "Numbers 18:29", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 677.6878318930115 }
Say to them further: When you have removed the best part from it, you Levites may consider it the same as the yield of threshing floor or vat.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.30", "ref": "Numbers 18:30", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 1881.7937254200963 }
You and your households may eat it anywhere, for it is your recompense for your services in the Tent of Meeting.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.31", "ref": "Numbers 18:31", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 531.5481959944534 }
You will incur no guilt through it, once you have removed the best part from it; but you must not profane the sacred donations of the Israelites, lest you die.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18.32", "ref": "Numbers 18:32", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 716.0675814441192 }
יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.19.1", "ref": "Numbers 19:1", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 176545.23639510892 }
This is the ritual law that יהוה has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.19.2", "ref": "Numbers 19:2", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 63881.8980736393 }
You shall give it to Eleazar the priest. It shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.19.3", "ref": "Numbers 19:3", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 5337.008432423353 }
Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.19.4", "ref": "Numbers 19:4", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4801.721798140703 }
The cow shall be burned in his sight—its hide, flesh, and blood shall be burned, its dung included—	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.19.5", "ref": "Numbers 19:5", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4324.33708878828 }
and the priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson stuff, and throw them into the fire consuming the cow.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.19.6", "ref": "Numbers 19:6", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 4464.813628877399 }
The priest shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; after that the priest may reenter the camp, but he shall be impure until evening.	{ "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.19.7", "ref": "Numbers 19:7", "versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006", "lang": "en", "docCategory": "Tanakh", "dataQuality": "professional", "pagerank": 6129.970154821827 }

They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and יהוה is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above יהוה's congregation?"

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When Moses heard this, he fell on his face. * he fell on his face Perhaps in the sense of "his face fell."

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Then he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, "Come morning, יהוה will make known who is [God's] and who is holy by granting direct access; the one whom [God] has chosen will be granted access.

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Do this: You, Korah and all your * your Lit. "his." band, take fire pans,

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and tomorrow put fire in them and lay incense on them before יהוה. Then the candidate * candidate Lit. "participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation"; trad. "man." See the Dictionary under 'ish . whom יהוה chooses, he shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!"

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Moses said further to Korah, "Hear me, sons of Levi.

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Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has set you apart from the community of Israel and given you direct access, to perform the duties of יהוה's Tabernacle and to minister to the community and serve them?

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Now that [God] has advanced you and all your fellow Levites with you, do you seek the priesthood too?

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Truly, it is against יהוה that you and all your company have banded together. For who is Aaron that you should rail against him?"

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Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab; but they said, "We will not come!

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Is it not enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us die in the wilderness, that you would also lord it over us?

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Even if you had * Even if you had Lit. "You have not even." brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey, and given us possession of fields and vineyards, should you gouge out the eyes of those involved? * gouge out the eyes of those involved Gouging out the eyes was punishment for runaway slaves and rebellious vassals; cf. 2 Kings 25.4–7; Jer. 39.4–7; 52.7–11. "Those involved" (NJPS "those men"; see the Dictionary under 'ish ) is a euphemism for self-reference; cf. 1 Sam. 29.4. We will not come!"

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Moses was much aggrieved and he said to יהוה, "Pay no regard to their oblation. I have not taken the ass of any one of them, nor have I wronged any one of them."

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And Moses said to Korah, "Tomorrow, you and all your company appear before יהוה, you and they and Aaron.

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Each of you take your fire pan and lay incense on it, and each of you bring that fire pan before יהוה, two hundred and fifty fire pans; you and Aaron also [bring] your fire pans."

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They each took their fire pan, put fire in it, laid incense on it, and took a place at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, as did Moses and Aaron.

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Korah gathered the whole community against them at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Then the Presence of יהוה appeared to the whole community,

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and יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

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"Stand back from this community that I may annihilate them in an instant!"

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But they fell on their faces and said, "O God, Source * Source Lit. "God." of the breath of all flesh! When one member * member Lit. "participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation." Trad. "man." See the Dictionary under 'ish . sins, will You be wrathful with the whole community?"

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יהוה spoke to Moses, saying,

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"Speak to the community and say: Withdraw from about the abodes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."

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Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, the elders of Israel following him.

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He addressed the community, saying, "Move away from the tents of these wicked men * wicked men Or "guilty parties"—alluding to the crime of insurrection, for which they are about to be punished. Cf. Exod. 2.13; Deut. 25.1; 2 Sam. 4.11. On "men," see note at Gen. 19.5. and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you be wiped out for all their sins."

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So they withdrew from about the abodes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Now Dathan and Abiram had come out and they stood at the entrance of their tents, with their wives, their adult children, * adult children So Ibn Ezra. Lit. "children." and their little ones.

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And Moses said, "By this you shall know that it was יהוה who sent me to do all these things; that they are not of my own devising:

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if these people's death is that of all humankind, if their lot is humankind's common fate, it was not יהוה who sent me.

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But if יהוה brings about something unheard-of, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, you shall know that those involved have spurned יהוה."

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Scarcely had he finished speaking all these words when the ground under them burst asunder,

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and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all Korah's people and all their possessions.

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They went down alive into Sheol, with all that belonged to them; the earth closed over them and they vanished from the midst of the congregation.

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All Israel around them fled at their shrieks, for they said, "The earth might swallow us!"

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And a fire went forth from יהוה and consumed the two hundred and fifty contestants * contestants Lit. "participants whose involvement defines the depicted situation." Trad. "men." See the Dictionary under 'ish . offering the incense.

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* In some editions, the following passage is counted as the continuation of chapter 16; see note at v. 16, below. יהוה spoke to Moses, saying:

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Order Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the fire pans—for they have become sacred—from among the charred remains; and scatter the coals abroad.

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* Meaning of parts of verse uncertain. [Remove] the fire pans of those who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and let them be made into hammered sheets as plating for the altar—for once they have been used for offering to יהוה, they have become sacred—and let them serve as a warning to the people of Israel.

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Eleazar the priest took the copper fire pans which had been used for offering by those who died in the fire; and they were hammered into plating for the altar,

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as יהוה had ordered him through Moses. It was to be a reminder to the Israelites, so that no outsider—one not of Aaron's offspring—should presume to offer incense before יהוה and suffer the fate of Korah and his band.

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Next day the whole Israelite community railed against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You two have brought death upon יהוה's people!"

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But as the community gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting; the cloud had covered it and the Presence of יהוה appeared.

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When Moses and Aaron reached the Tent of Meeting,

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יהוה spoke to Moses, saying,

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"Remove yourselves from this community, that I may annihilate them in an instant." They fell on their faces.

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Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take the fire pan, and put on it fire from the altar. Add incense and take it quickly to the community and make expiation for them. For wrath has gone forth from יהוה: the plague has begun!"

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Aaron took it, as Moses had ordered, and ran to the midst of the congregation, where the plague had begun among the people. He put on the incense and made expiation for the people;

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he stood between the dead and the living until the plague was checked.

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Those who died of the plague came to fourteen thousand and seven hundred, aside from those who died on account of Korah.

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Aaron then returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, since the plague was checked.

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* This verse constitutes 17.1 in some editions. יהוה spoke to Moses, saying:

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Speak to the Israelite people and take from them—from the chieftains of their ancestral houses * of their ancestral houses I.e., of their tribes. —one staff for each chieftain of an ancestral house: twelve staffs in all. Inscribe each one's name on his staff,

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there being one staff for each head of an ancestral house; also inscribe Aaron's name on the staff of Levi.

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Deposit them in the Tent of Meeting before the Pact, where I meet with you.

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The staff of the candidate * candidate See note at 16.7. whom I choose shall sprout, and I will rid * I will rid Meaning of Heb. wa-hashikkothi uncertain. Myself of the incessant mutterings of the Israelites against you.

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Moses spoke thus to the Israelites. Their chieftains gave him a staff for each chieftain of an ancestral house, twelve staffs in all; among these staffs was that of Aaron.

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Moses deposited the staffs before יהוה, in the Tent of the Pact.

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The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Pact, and there the staff of Aaron of the house of Levi had sprouted: it had brought forth sprouts, produced blossoms, and borne almonds.

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Moses then brought out all the staffs from before יהוה to all the Israelites; each identified and recovered his staff.

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יהוה said to Moses, "Put Aaron's staff back before the Pact, to be kept as a lesson to rebels, so that their mutterings against Me may cease, lest they die."

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This Moses did; just as יהוה had commanded him, so he did.

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But the Israelites said to Moses, "Lo, we perish! We are lost, all of us lost!

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Everyone who so much as ventures near יהוה's Tabernacle must die. Alas, we are doomed to perish!"

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יהוה said to Aaron: You and your sons and the ancestral house under your charge shall bear any guilt connected with the sanctuary; you and your sons alone shall bear any guilt connected with your priesthood.

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You shall also associate with yourself your kinsmen the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, to be attached to you and to minister to you, while you and your sons under your charge are before the Tent of the Pact. * while you and your sons … Tent of the Pact Force of Heb. uncertain.

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They shall discharge their duties to you and to the Tent as a whole, but they must not have any contact with the furnishings of the Shrine or with the altar, lest both they and you die.

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They shall be attached to you and discharge the duties of the Tent of Meeting, all the service of the Tent; but no outsider shall intrude upon you

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as you discharge the duties connected with the Shrine and the altar, that wrath may not again strike the Israelites.

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I hereby take your fellow Levites from among the Israelites; they are assigned to you in dedication to יהוה, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting;

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while you and your sons shall be careful to perform your priestly duties in everything pertaining to the altar and to what is behind the curtain. I make your priesthood a service of dedication; any outsider who encroaches shall be put to death.

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יהוה spoke further to Aaron: I hereby give you charge of My gifts, all the sacred donations of the Israelites; I grant them to you and to your sons as a perquisite, * perquisite See the first note at Lev. 7.35. a due for all time.

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This shall be yours from the most holy sacrifices, the offerings by fire: * the offerings by fire Force of Heb. min ha-'esh uncertain; lit. "from the fire." every such offering that they render to Me as most holy sacrifices, namely, every meal offering, sin offering, and guilt offering of theirs, shall belong to you and your sons.

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You shall partake of them as most sacred donations: only males may eat them; you shall treat them as consecrated. * you shall treat them as consecrated Or "they are consecrated for your use."

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This, too, shall be yours: the gift offerings * gift offerings Cf. Lev. 7.29ff. of their contributions, all the elevation offerings of the Israelites, I give to you [and your wives], to your sons, and to the daughters that are with you, as a due for all time; everyone of your household who is pure may eat it.

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All the best of the new oil, wine, and grain—the choice parts that they present to יהוה —I give to you.

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The first fruits of everything in their land, that they bring to יהוה, shall be yours; everyone of your household who is pure may eat them.

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Everything that has been proscribed in Israel * proscribed in Israel See Lev. 27.28. shall be yours.

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The first [male] issue of the womb of every being, human or beast, that is offered to יהוה, shall be yours; but you shall have the male first-born of human beings redeemed, and you shall also have the firstling of impure animals redeemed.

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Take as their redemption price, * their redemption price I.e., for human first-born; cf. Num. 3.44ff. For animals see Exod. 34.19–20. from the age of one month up, the money equivalent of five shekels by the sanctuary weight, which is twenty gerahs .

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But the firstlings of cattle, sheep, or goats may not be redeemed; they are consecrated. You shall dash their blood against the altar, and turn their fat into smoke as an offering by fire for a pleasing odor to יהוה.

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But their meat shall be yours: it shall be yours like the breast of elevation offering and like the right thigh.

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All the sacred gifts that the Israelites set aside for יהוה I give to you, to your sons, and to the daughters that are with you, as a due for all time. It shall be an everlasting covenant of salt * covenant of salt See Lev. 2.13. before יהוה for you and for your offspring as well.

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And יהוה said to Aaron: You shall, however, have no territorial share among them or own any portion in their midst; I am your portion and your share among the Israelites.

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And to the Levites I hereby give all the tithes in Israel as their share in return for the services that they perform, the services of the Tent of Meeting.

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Henceforth, Israelites shall not trespass on the Tent of Meeting, and thus incur guilt and die:

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only Levites shall perform the services of the Tent of Meeting; others * others Lit. "they." would incur guilt. It is the law for all time throughout the ages. But they shall have no territorial share among the Israelites;

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for it is the tithes set aside by the Israelites as a gift to יהוה that I give to the Levites as their share. Therefore I have said concerning them: They shall have no territorial share among the Israelites.

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יהוה spoke to Moses, saying:

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Speak to the Levites and say to them: When you receive from the Israelites their tithes, which I have assigned to you as your share, you shall set aside from them one-tenth of the tithe as a gift to יהוה.

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This shall be accounted to you as your gift. As with the new grain from the threshing floor or the flow from the vat,

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so shall you on your part set aside a gift for יהוה from all the tithes that you receive from the Israelites; and from them you shall bring the gift for יהוה to Aaron the priest.

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You shall set aside all gifts due to יהוה from everything that is donated to you, from each thing its best portion, the part thereof that is to be consecrated.

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Say to them further: When you have removed the best part from it, you Levites may consider it the same as the yield of threshing floor or vat.

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You and your households may eat it anywhere, for it is your recompense for your services in the Tent of Meeting.

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You will incur no guilt through it, once you have removed the best part from it; but you must not profane the sacred donations of the Israelites, lest you die.

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יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

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This is the ritual law that יהוה has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid.

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You shall give it to Eleazar the priest. It shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

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Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.

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The cow shall be burned in his sight—its hide, flesh, and blood shall be burned, its dung included—

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and the priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson stuff, and throw them into the fire consuming the cow.

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The priest shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; after that the priest may reenter the camp, but he shall be impure until evening.

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