Numbers 16:33-35
16:33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.
16:34 All the Israelites 1 who were around them fled at their cry, 2 for they said, “What if 3 the earth swallows us too?”
16:35 Then a fire 4 went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.
1 tn Heb “all Israel.”
2 tn Heb “voice.”
3 tn Heb “lest.”
4 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.