And LORD said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

And Moses said to LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for thou brought up this people in thy might from among them,

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou LORD are in the midst of this people, for thou LORD are seen face to face, and thy cloud stands over them, and thou go before them, in a pillar of clo

Because LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

And now, I pray thee, let the power of LORD be great, according as thou have spoken, saying,

LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth gene

Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy loving kindness, and according as thou have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

And LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word,

but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of LORD,

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went, and his seed shall possess it.

Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley. Tomorrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, ye shall bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

I, LORD, have spoken, surely I will do this to all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

And Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

And they rose up early in the morning, and got up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which LORD has promised, for we have sinned.

And Moses said, Why do ye now transgress the commandment of LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword. Because ye have turned back from following LORD, therefore LORD will not be with you.

But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain, nevertheless the ark of the covenant of LORD, and Moses, did not depart out of the camp.

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

and will make an offering by fire to LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor to LORD, of the herd, or of the flock,

And wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, thou shall prepare with the burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

And for the drink-offering thou shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to LORD.

And when thou prepare a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings to LORD;

And thou shall offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD.

And if a stranger sojourns with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.

For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who sojourns [with you], a statute forever throughout your generations. As ye are, so shall the sojourner be before LORD.

One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who sojourns with you.

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land where I bring you,

And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which LORD has spoken to Moses,

even all that LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,

then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor to LORD, with the meal-offering of it, and the

And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, for it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire to LORD, and their sin-offering bef

And all the congregation of the sons of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.

And if one soul sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering.

And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that errs, when he sins unwittingly, before LORD, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

Ye shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is home-born among the sons of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemes LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Because he has despised the word of LORD, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

And while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day.

And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

And LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.

And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as LORD commanded Moses.

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the sons of Israel, and bid them that they make for them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue.

And it shall be to you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of LORD, and do them, and that ye not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot,

that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took,

and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown,

and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, Ye take too much upon you, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and LORD is among them. Why then do ye lift up yourselves

And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face.

And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning LORD will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him, even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near to him.

This do: Take you censers, Korah, and all his company,

and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before LORD tomorrow. And it shall be that the man whom LORD chooses, he [is] holy. Ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

And Moses said to Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi.

[Is it] a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to

and that he has brought thee near, and all thy brothers the sons of Levi with thee? And ye seek the priesthood also?

Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered together against LORD. And Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. And they said, We will not come up.

Is it a small thing that thou have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must make thyself also a ruler over us?

Moreover thou have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will thou put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

And Moses was very angry, and said to LORD, Do not respect thou their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

And Moses said to Korah, Be thou and all thy company before LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

And take ye every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers, thou also, and Aaron, each his censer.

And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

And Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the tent of meeting. And the glory of LORD appeared to all the congregation.

And LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will thou be angry with all the congregation?

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

So they got up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.

And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that LORD has sent me to do all these works, for [it is] not of my own mind.

But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.

And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them,

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that pertained to Korah, and all their goods.

So they, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

And fire came forth from LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder, for they are holy,

even the censers of these sinners against their own lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before LORD, therefore they are holy, and they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.

And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, which those who were burnt had offered, and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

to be a memorial to the sons of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before LORD, that he not be as Korah, and as his company, as LORD spoke to him by Moses.

But on the morrow all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of LORD.

And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting, and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of LORD appeared.

And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.