Numbers 16:44-50
Read Numbers 16 in full →44and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 45“1,aGet away from among this congregation, that I may consume them instantly.” Then they fell on their faces. 46And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and amake atonement for them, for bwrath has gone forth from Yahweh, the plague has begun!” 47Then Aaron took it as Moses had spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people. aSo he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. 48And he took his stand between the dead and the living, so that the plague was checked. 49aBut those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides those who bdied on account of Korah. 50Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of meeting, for the plague had been checked.