Holy Scripture

Numbers 16:32

A church father on this verse
“In the Old Testament, as, for instance, in the case of Korah and the men who dared to enter the priesthood without being called to it and by the severity of the wrath which came upon them to their utter destruction, we see how grave a thing it is to do that which is unsuitable as regards the person.”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — CONCERNING BAPTISM, QUESTION 8

Source: Septuagint

Original

32And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Korah, and their cattle.

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In context

30But if the Lord shall show by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.

31And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder beneath them.

— Numbers 16:32 —

33And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

34And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

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