Numbers 16:21

16:21 “Separate yourselves 1  from among this community, 2  that I may consume them in an instant.”

Numbers 16:35

16:35 Then a fire 3  went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

1 tn The verb is הִבָּדְלוּ (hibbadÿlu), the Niphal imperative of בָּדַל (badal). This is the same word that was just used when Moses reminded the Levites that they had been separated from the community to serve the Lord.

2 sn The group of people siding with Korah is meant, and not the entire community of the people of Israel. They are an assembly of rebels, their “community” consisting in their common plot.

3 tn For a discussion of the fire of the Lord, see J. C. H. Laughlin, “The Strange Fire of Nadab and Abihu,” JBL 95 (1976): 559-65.