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Numbers Chapter 16

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In Numbers chapter 16 the Israelites, after a night of idolatry, demand a golden calf to worship, and Moses confronts them, rebuking their sin and demanding they return to the true God. The people then tear down the calf and burn the wood, showing their willingness to destroy the idol. The chapter emphasizes the seriousness of sin and the importance of staying faithful to God's commandments.

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(1) Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
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Numbers 26:9Numbers 26:10Numbers 27:3Exodus 6:18Exodus 6:21Jude 1:11Genesis 49:3Genesis 49:4I Chronicles 5:1I Chronicles 5:2

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Numbers 26:9Numbers 16:27Deuteronomy 11:6Exodus 6:16I Chronicles 6:38Numbers 16:24

(2) And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
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Numbers 26:9Genesis 6:4I Chronicles 5:24I Chronicles 12:30Ezekiel 16:14Ezekiel 23:10

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II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17Jeremiah 26:17II Kings 1:10Psalms 68:27

(3) And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
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Numbers 16:11Numbers 12:1Numbers 12:2Numbers 14:1Numbers 14:2Numbers 14:3Numbers 14:4Psalms 106:16Acts 7:39Acts 7:51Exodus 19:6Ezra 9:2

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Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Isaiah 8:9

(4) And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
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Numbers 16:45Numbers 14:5Numbers 20:6Joshua 7:6

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Judges 5:27

(5) And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
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Malachi 3:18II Timothy 2:19Numbers 16:3Leviticus 21:6Leviticus 21:7Leviticus 21:8Leviticus 21:12Leviticus 21:13Leviticus 21:14Leviticus 21:15Isaiah 61:5Isaiah 61:6

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Genesis 27:25Genesis 33:7Genesis 45:4Numbers 16:40Joshua 10:24I Kings 18:30

(6) This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
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Numbers 16:35Numbers 16:36Numbers 16:37Numbers 16:38Numbers 16:39Numbers 16:40Numbers 16:46Numbers 16:47Numbers 16:48Leviticus 10:1Leviticus 16:12Leviticus 16:13

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Numbers 27:3

(7) And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
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Numbers 16:3Numbers 16:5Ephesians 1:4II Thessalonians 2:13I Peter 2:9I Kings 18:17I Kings 18:18Matthew 21:23Matthew 21:24Matthew 21:25Matthew 21:26Matthew 21:27

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Revelation 10:6Deuteronomy 14:24

(8) And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
(9) Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
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Numbers 16:13Genesis 30:15I Samuel 18:23II Samuel 7:19Isaiah 7:13Ezekiel 34:18I Corinthians 4:3Numbers 1:53Numbers 3:41Numbers 3:42Numbers 3:43Numbers 3:44

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Numbers 1:50Exodus 28:43Exodus 30:20Isaiah 50:8Ezekiel 44:15Deuteronomy 10:8

(10) And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
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Proverbs 13:10Matthew 20:21Matthew 20:22Luke 22:24Romans 12:10Philippians 2:3III John 1:9

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Zephaniah 2:3

(11) For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
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Numbers 16:3I Samuel 8:7Luke 10:16John 13:20Romans 13:2Exodus 16:7Exodus 16:8Exodus 17:2Acts 5:4I Corinthians 3:5

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Numbers 27:3

(12) And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
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Proverbs 29:9Isaiah 3:5I Peter 2:13I Peter 2:14Jude 1:8

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Numbers 26:9Numbers 16:27Numbers 16:1Deuteronomy 11:6

(13) Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
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Numbers 11:5Exodus 1:11Exodus 1:22Exodus 2:23Numbers 20:3Numbers 20:4Exodus 16:3Exodus 17:3Exodus 2:14Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:3Luke 19:14

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Joshua 5:6Exodus 16:14Ezekiel 20:15Leviticus 20:24Numbers 13:27Numbers 14:8

(14) Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
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Numbers 36:8Numbers 36:9Numbers 36:10Exodus 3:8Exodus 3:17Leviticus 20:24

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II Kings 8:12Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Exodus 15:26Leviticus 20:24

(15) And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
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Numbers 12:3Exodus 32:19Matthew 5:22Mark 3:5Ephesians 4:26Numbers 16:6Numbers 16:7Genesis 4:4Genesis 4:5Isaiah 1:10Isaiah 1:11Isaiah 1:12

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Numbers 22:23

(16) And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
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Numbers 16:6Numbers 16:7I Samuel 12:3I Samuel 12:7II Timothy 2:14

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Numbers 16:5Numbers 27:3

(17) And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
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I Samuel 12:7

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II Chronicles 26:19II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17Leviticus 10:1Leviticus 16:12Numbers 16:18

(18) And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
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Exodus 35:15Leviticus 4:7Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Numbers 16:17Exodus 33:8

(19) And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
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Numbers 16:1Numbers 16:2Numbers 16:42Numbers 12:5Numbers 14:10Exodus 16:7Exodus 16:10Leviticus 9:6Leviticus 9:23

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Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Deuteronomy 31:15Exodus 16:18Leviticus 8:4Numbers 11:32

(20) And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
(21) Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
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Genesis 19:15Genesis 19:16Genesis 19:17Genesis 19:18Genesis 19:19Genesis 19:20Genesis 19:21Genesis 19:22Jeremiah 5:16Acts 2:40II Corinthians 6:17Ephesians 5:6

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Isaiah 8:9Zechariah 14:12

(22) And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
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Numbers 16:4Numbers 16:45Numbers 14:5Numbers 27:16Job 12:10Ecclesiastes 12:7Isaiah 57:16Zechariah 12:1Hebrews 12:9Genesis 18:23Genesis 18:24Genesis 18:25

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II Kings 8:12Judges 5:27Exodus 15:26

(23) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
(24) Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
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Numbers 16:21

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Numbers 16:27Numbers 26:9Numbers 16:1Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25

(25) And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
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Numbers 11:16Numbers 11:17Numbers 11:25Numbers 11:30

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Numbers 16:27Numbers 26:9

(26) And he spake unto 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.
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Numbers 16:21Numbers 16:22Numbers 16:23Numbers 16:24Genesis 19:12Genesis 19:13Genesis 19:14Deuteronomy 13:17Isaiah 52:11Matthew 10:14Acts 8:20Acts 13:51

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Lamentations 4:15Numbers 18:9Isaiah 52:11Deuteronomy 4:9Jeremiah 6:8

(27) So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
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II Kings 9:30II Kings 9:31Job 9:4Job 40:10Job 40:11Proverbs 16:18Proverbs 18:12Isaiah 28:14

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Numbers 26:9Numbers 16:24Deuteronomy 11:6Numbers 16:1Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25

(28) And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
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Exodus 3:12Exodus 4:1Exodus 4:2Exodus 4:3Exodus 4:4Exodus 4:5Exodus 4:6Exodus 4:7Exodus 4:8Exodus 4:9Exodus 7:9Deuteronomy 18:22

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Isaiah 59:6Galatians 2:16James 2:18

(29) If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
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Exodus 20:5Exodus 32:34Job 35:15Isaiah 10:3Jeremiah 5:9Lamentations 4:22I Kings 22:28II Chronicles 18:27

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8

(30) But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
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Job 31:3Isaiah 28:21Isaiah 43:19Isaiah 45:7Isaiah 45:12Jeremiah 31:22Numbers 16:33Psalms 55:15

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Exodus 21:33Isaiah 24:18Revelation 9:2

(31) And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
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Numbers 26:10Numbers 26:11Numbers 27:3Deuteronomy 11:6Psalms 106:17Psalms 106:18

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Jeremiah 25:33

(32) And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
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Numbers 16:30Genesis 4:11Isaiah 5:14Revelation 12:16Numbers 16:17Numbers 26:11Numbers 27:3I Chronicles 6:22I Chronicles 6:37Psalms 84:1Psalms 85:1Psalms 88:1

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Numbers 26:10Zephaniah 1:13Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(33) They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
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Psalms 9:15Psalms 55:23Psalms 69:15Psalms 143:7Isaiah 14:9Isaiah 14:15Ezekiel 32:18Ezekiel 32:30Jude 1:11

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II Kings 10:14Revelation 9:2

(34) And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
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Isaiah 33:3Zechariah 14:5Revelation 6:15Revelation 6:16Revelation 6:17Numbers 17:12Numbers 17:13

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I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23

(35) And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
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Numbers 11:1Numbers 26:10Leviticus 10:2Psalms 106:18Numbers 16:2Numbers 16:17

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II Kings 1:10II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17II Kings 1:12I Kings 12:33

(36) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
(37) Speak unto 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 hallowed.
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Numbers 16:7Numbers 16:18Leviticus 27:28

(38) The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
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I Kings 2:23Proverbs 1:18Proverbs 8:36Proverbs 20:2Habakkuk 2:10Numbers 16:40Numbers 17:10Numbers 26:10Ezekiel 14:8I Corinthians 10:11II Peter 2:6

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Numbers 16:39Exodus 39:34Ezekiel 13:18Ezekiel 13:20Matthew 12:39Matthew 16:4

(39) And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
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Numbers 16:38Exodus 39:34Numbers 4:14I Kings 6:6

(40) To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
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Numbers 3:10Numbers 3:38Numbers 18:4Numbers 18:5Numbers 18:6Numbers 18:7Leviticus 22:10II Chronicles 26:18II Chronicles 26:19II Chronicles 26:20Jude 1:11I Kings 13:1

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Numbers 16:5Genesis 26:4Leviticus 21:21Jeremiah 33:26Psalms 66:15Malachi 1:8

(41) But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
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Numbers 16:1Numbers 16:2Numbers 16:3Numbers 16:4Numbers 16:5Numbers 16:6Numbers 16:7Numbers 14:2Psalms 106:13Psalms 106:23Psalms 106:25Psalms 106:26

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II Chronicles 29:22

(42) And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
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Numbers 16:19Numbers 14:10Numbers 20:6Exodus 16:7Exodus 16:10Exodus 24:16Exodus 40:34Exodus 40:35Leviticus 9:23

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Numbers 9:15Deuteronomy 31:15Exodus 16:10I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10

(43) And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
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Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25Numbers 4:25Numbers 9:15

(44) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
(45) Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
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Numbers 16:21Numbers 16:24Numbers 16:26Numbers 16:22Numbers 20:6I Chronicles 21:16Matthew 26:39

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Judges 5:27Zechariah 14:12

(46) And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
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Leviticus 9:24Leviticus 10:1Leviticus 16:12Leviticus 16:13Isaiah 6:6Isaiah 6:7Romans 5:9Romans 5:10Hebrews 7:25Hebrews 7:26Hebrews 7:27Hebrews 9:25

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Leviticus 13:3Numbers 16:47Numbers 16:17Leviticus 10:1Revelation 10:6Leviticus 13:51

(47) And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
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Matthew 5:44Romans 12:21Psalms 106:29Numbers 16:46Deuteronomy 33:10Deuteronomy 33:11Isaiah 53:10Isaiah 53:11Isaiah 53:12

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(48) And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
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Numbers 16:18Numbers 16:35Numbers 25:8Numbers 25:9Numbers 25:10Numbers 25:11II Samuel 24:16II Samuel 24:17II Samuel 24:25I Chronicles 21:26I Chronicles 21:27I Thessalonians 1:10

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Leviticus 13:3Leviticus 13:51Leviticus 13:55

(49) Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
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Numbers 16:32Numbers 16:33Numbers 16:34Numbers 16:35Numbers 25:9I Chronicles 21:14Hebrews 2:1Hebrews 2:2Hebrews 2:3Hebrews 10:28Hebrews 10:29Hebrews 12:25

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(50) And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
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Numbers 16:43I Chronicles 21:26I Chronicles 21:27I Chronicles 21:28I Chronicles 21:29I Chronicles 21:30

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