Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: ‘Give us meat to eat!’

They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”

Balaam proclaimed his poem:

Balak, get up and listen;
son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

“Tell the community: Get away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”

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

He warned the community, “Get away now from the tents of these wicked men. Don’t touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

So they got away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrance of their tents with their wives, children, and infants.

“Get away from this community so that I may consume them instantly.” But they fell facedown.

So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s officials, “Go back to your land, because the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

When he got up in the morning, Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the officials of Moab.