A moment in scripture
Numbers 16:35
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And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
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The surrounding passage
- Numbers 16:33
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.
- Numbers 16:34
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
- Numbers 16:36
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
- Numbers 16:37
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.