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33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community. 34 All the Israelites[a] who were around them fled at their cry,[b] for they said, “What if[c] the earth swallows us too?” 35 Then a fire[d] went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:34 tn Heb “all Israel.”
  2. Numbers 16:34 tn Heb “voice.”
  3. Numbers 16:34 tn Heb “lest.”
  4. Numbers 16:35 tn For a discussion of the fire of the Lord, see J. C. H. Laughlin, “The Strange Fire of Nadab and Abihu,” JBL 95 (1976): 559-65.