Numbers 16:30-44
English Standard Version
31And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.
32And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.
33So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
34And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"
35And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.
36Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
37"Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.
38As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel."
39So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,
40to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company — as the Lord said to him through Moses.
41But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the Lord."
42And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
43And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,
44and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
