Numbers 16:49

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.

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  • Num 25:9 : 9 But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.
  • 1 Chr 21:14 : 14 So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
  • Heb 2:1-3 : 1 For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away. 2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
  • Heb 10:28-29 : 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?
  • Num 16:32-35 : 32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods. 33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people. 34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth. 35 Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

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    44 And the Lord said to Moses,

    45 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

    46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.

    47 And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people.

    48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.

  • Num 25:8-10
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    8 And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

    9 But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 16:50
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    50 Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the disease came to a stop.

  • Num 26:9-11
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    9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:

    10 And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

    11 But death did not overtake the sons of Korah.

  • Num 14:37
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    37 Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

  • Num 16:16-21
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    16 And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:

    17 And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and everyone with his vessel.

    18 So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

    19 And Korah made all the people come together against them to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.

    20 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    21 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

  • Num 16:31-34
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    31 And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two;

    32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

    33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

    34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

  • Num 16:26-27
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    26 And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.

    27 So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little ones.

  • Num 31:16
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    16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

  • Num 26:1
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    1 Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,

  • Num 16:40-41
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    40 To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

    41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

  • Num 27:3
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    3 Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

  • Num 31:46
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    46 And sixteen thousand persons;)

  • Num 16:23-24
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    23 And the Lord said to Moses,

    24 Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram.

  • Lev 10:2
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    2 And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

  • Num 16:1
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    1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready,

  • Num 16:36
    70%

    36 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 2 Sam 24:15
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    15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.

  • 1 Chr 21:14
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    14 So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.

  • Num 4:36-37
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    36 And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

    37 This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

  • Deut 2:16
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    16 So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,

  • Lev 16:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they took in strange fire before the Lord and death overtook them;

  • Num 16:8
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    8 And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:

  • Num 26:61
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    61 Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.

  • Num 14:29
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    29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

  • Num 11:33
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    33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

  • Exod 30:12
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    12 When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.

  • Num 1:46
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    46 Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

  • Num 4:48
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    48 Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.