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29 If they die a natural death[a] or if a natural fate is visited upon them,[b] Yahweh has not sent me. 30 But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and all that belongs to them,[c] and they go down alive to Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh.”

31 And it happened, as soon as he finished speaking[d] all these words, the ground that was under them split open.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:29 Literally “If they die like the death of every human”
  2. Numbers 16:29 Literally “If the fate of every human is visited upon them”
  3. Numbers 16:30 Literally “All that is for them”
  4. Numbers 16:31 Literally “to speak”