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When Moses heard this, he knelt down to pray.[a] Then he said to Korah and his followers:

Tomorrow morning the Lord will show us the person he has chosen to be his priest, and that man will faithfully serve him.

6-7 Korah, here is what you and your followers must do: Get some fire pans, fill them with coals and incense, and place them near the sacred tent. And the man the Lord chooses will be his priest.[b] Korah, this time you Levites have gone too far!

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Footnotes

  1. 16.4 he knelt down to pray: Or “he fell to his knees in sorrow.”
  2. 16.6,7 Get some fire pans … his priest: Only priests could offer incense at the sacred altar; anyone else who tried would be killed. In this case, the man who lived would be the one the Lord had chosen.

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