Numbers 16:6-14

6Do this, Korah and your whole following! Take for yourselves censers.

7Put fire and incense into them in the presence of Adonai. Tomorrow the man that Adonai chooses will be the holy one! You sons of Levi are the ones who have gone too far!”

8Moses also said to Korah, “Listen now, sons of Levi!

9Isn’t it enough that the God of Israel has set you apart from the community of Israel to bring you near to Him to do the work of the Tabernacle of Adonai and to stand before the community to minister to them?

10So He brought you close, along with all your fellow sons of Levi. But you are seeking the priesthood, too!

11Therefore you and all your following are banding together against Adonai! Who then is Aaron—that you are grumbling against him?”

12Then Moses sent word to call Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab. But they said, “We will not come!

13Isn’t it enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey, only to kill us in the wilderness? And now you would lord it over us?

14What’s more, you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you now gouge out the eyes of those men? We won’t come!”