Numbers 16:16-17:13 Then Moses said vnto Corah: Be thou and all thy company before the Lord: both thou they, and Aaron to morowe.

Matthew⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ Then Moses said vnto Corah: Be thou and all thy company before the Lord: both thou they, and Aaron to morowe. ¹⁷ And take euery man his censer and putte cense in them, and come before the Lord euery man with his censer: two hundred and fiftye censers, and Aaron wyth hys censer. ¹⁸ And they toke euerye man his censer and put fyre in them & layed cense thereon, and stode in the dore of the tabernacle of wytnesse, and Moses and Aaron also. ¹⁹ And Corah gathered all the congregation agaynste them vnto the dore of the tabernacle of wytnesse. And the glory of the Lord appeared vnto all the congregation. ²⁰ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayinge: ²¹ seperate your selues from thys congregation, that I may consume them at once. ²² And they fel vpon theyr faces and sayd O most myghty God of the spirites of al fleshe, one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with al the multitude? ²³ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayinge, ²⁴ speake vnto the congregation and saye: Get you awaye from aboute the dwellynge of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram. ²⁵ And Moses rose and wente vnto Dathan and Abiram, & the elders of Israel folowed him. ²⁶ And he spake vnto the congregation saying: depart from the tentes of these wicked men & touche nothynge of theyrs: lest ye peryshe in al theyr synnes. ²⁷ And they gate them from the dwellynge of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram on euerye syde. And Dathan and Abiram came oute and stode in the dore of theyr tentes wyth theyr wyues, theyr sonne and theyr children. ²⁸ And Moses sayed hereby ye shall knowe that the Lorde hath sente me, to do all these worckes, & that I haue not done them of mine own mynd: ²⁹ If these men dye the commen death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lorde hathe not sent me. ³⁰ But and if the Lorde make a newe thyng, and the earth open hyr mouth & swalowe theim, and all that pertayne vnto them, so that they go downe quicke vnto hel: then ye shal vnderstand, that these men haue rayled vpon the Lord. ³¹ And assone as he hadde made an ende of speakyng al these wordes, the ground cloue a sunder that was vnder them, ³² and the earth opened hyr mouth and swalowed them and theyr houses, and al menne that were wyth Corah and al theyr goodes. ³³ And they and all that pertained vnto them, went downe aliue vnto hell, and the earth closed vppon theim and they peryshed from amonge the congregation. ³⁴ Ad all Israel that were aboute them fledde at the cry of them. For they said: The earth myght haply swalow vs vp also. ³⁵ And there came out a fyre from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fyftye men that offered cense. ³⁶ And the Lord spake vnto Moses saying: ³⁷ Speake vnto Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the prieste and lette hym take vp the censers oute of the burnynge & scatter the fyre here and there, ³⁸ for the censers of the synners are halowed in theyr deathes: and let them be beaten, into thyne plates and fastened vpon the alter. For they offered theim before the Lorde, and therfore they are holye and they shalbe a sygne vnto the children of Israel. ³⁹ And Eleazar the Prieste toke the brasen censers whych they that were burnt had offered, & beate them and fastened them vpon the alter, ⁴⁰ to be a remembraunce vnto the children of Israel, that no straunger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come nere to offer cense before the Lord, that he be not made lyke vnto Corah and hys companye: as the Lord sayd vnto hym by the hand of Moses. ⁴¹ And on the morrowe all the multitude of the chyldren of Israell murmured agaynste Moses and Aaron sayinge: ye haue kylled the people of the Lorde. ⁴² And when the multitude was gathered against Moses & Aaron thei loked toward the tabernacle of witnes. And beholde, the cloude had couered it and the glory of the Lord appeared. ⁴³ And Moses & Aaron went before the tabernacle of wytnesse. ⁴⁴ And the Lord spake vnto Moses saying: ⁴⁵ Get you from this congregation, that I may consume them quyckely. And they fel vpon theyr faces. ⁴⁶ And Moses sayd vnto Aaron: take a censer, and put fyre therein out of the alter, and poure on cense, and go quickely vnto the congregation and make an atonement for them For there is wrath gone out from the Lord and ther is a plage begone. ⁴⁷ And Aaron toke as Moses commaunded hym, and ran vnto the congregation, & beholde, the plage was begonne amonge the people, and he putt on cense, & made an atonemente for the people. ⁴⁸ And he stode betwene the deade, & them that were a lyue and the plage ceased. ⁴⁹ And the numbre of them that dyed in the plage, were .xiiij. thousand and seuen hundred: beside them that dyed about the busines of Corah. ⁵⁰ And Aaron wente againe vnto Moses vnto the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse, and the plage ceased. ¹⁷ ¹ And the Lord spake vnto Moses sayinge: ² speake vnto the chyldren of Israel and take of them for euery principal house a rodde, of theyr prynces ouer the houses of their fathers: euen .xij. roddes, & write euery mans name vpon his rod. ³ And write Aaron a name vpon the state of Leui: for euerye headman ouer the house of theyr fathers shal haue a rodde. ⁴ And put them in the tabernacle of wytnesse where I wyll mete you. ⁵ And hys rodde whome I chose, shall blossome: So I wyl make cease from me the grudgynges of the chyldren of Israel whyche they grudge agaynst you. ⁶ And Moses spake vnto the chyldren of Israel, and al the princes gaue him for euery prynce ouer theyr fathers houses, a rod: euen .xij. rods, and the rod of Aaron was among the roddes. ⁷ And Moses put the roddes before the Lord in the tabernacle of witnes. ⁸ And on the morow, Moses wente into the tabernacle: and beholde the rodd of Aaron of the house of Leuy was budded & bare blossoms and almondes. ⁹ And Moses brought out all the staues frome before the Lorde, vnto all the children of Israel, & they loked vpon them and toke euery man hys staffe. ¹⁰ And the Lorde sayed vnto Moses: bryng Aarons rod agayne before the wytnes to be kepte for a token vnto the chyldren of rebellyon, that theyr murmurynges may cease fro me, that they dye not. ¹¹ And Moses did as the Lorde commaunded hym. ¹² And the chyldren of Israell spake vnto Moses sayinge: beholde, wee are destroyed and all come to nought: ¹³ for whosoeuer cometh nye the dwellynge of the Lorde, dyeth. Shall we vtterlye consume away.