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Numbers 16:33-35

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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.



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