Add parallel Print Page Options

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.

Read full chapter

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”

29 If these men die a natural death and suffer the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me.(A) 30 But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth(B) and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead,(C) then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.(D)

31 As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart(E)

Read full chapter