Bible verse
And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Numbers 16:35 · BSB
The verses around it, from Numbers 16.
31 As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions.
33 They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
34 At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”
35 And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
36 Then the LORD said to Moses,
37 “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.
38 As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,
KJV
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
ASV
And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
ERV
And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
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