Numbers 16:21

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“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 16:45 : 45 “Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.
  • Exod 32:10 : 10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
  • Exod 33:5 : 5 For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”
  • Rev 18:4 : 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,“Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The LORD’s angel went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!
  • Jer 5:16 : 16 All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying,“Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
  • Eph 5:6-7 : 6 Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be sharers with them,
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe. 29 For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
  • Gen 19:15-22 : 15 At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying,“Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” 16 When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city. 17 When they had brought them outside, they said,“Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!” 18 But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord! 19 Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die. 20 Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.” 21 “Very well,” he replied,“I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned. 22 Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”(This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)
  • Num 14:12 : 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”
  • Num 14:15 : 15 If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 16:44-46
    3 verses
    90%

    44 The LORD spoke to Moses:

    45 “Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

    46 Then Moses said to Aaron,“Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD– the plague has begun!”

  • Num 16:18-20
    3 verses
    85%

    18 So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

    19 When Korah assembled the whole community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, then the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole community.

    20 The Judgment on the Rebels The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 16:26-27
    2 verses
    82%

    26 And he said to the community,“Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins.”

    27 So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers.

  • Num 16:22-24
    3 verses
    80%

    22 Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said,“O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

    23 So the LORD spoke to Moses:

    24 “Tell the community:‘Get away from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’”

  • Num 16:34-36
    3 verses
    78%

    34 All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said,“What if the earth swallows us too?”

    35 Then a fire went out from the LORD and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

    36 The Atonement for the Rebellion(17:1) The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 35 I, the LORD, have said,“I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”

  • 77%

    21 The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

    22 Let the priests also, who approach the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break through against them.”

  • Num 16:41-42
    2 verses
    76%

    41 But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

    42 When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting– and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

  • 10 The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

  • 16 Then Moses said to Korah,“You and all your company present yourselves before the LORD– you and they, and Aaron– tomorrow.

  • 11 and the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    27 “How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

  • 13 (17:28) Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the LORD will die! Are we all to die?”

  • 18 Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

  • 3 And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them,“You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the LORD.

  • 1 The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

  • 10 However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.

  • 20 So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.

  • 21 The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 1 Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 2 So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.

  • 1 Religious and Social Regulations The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 14 Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”

  • 5 For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

  • 2 The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • 13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 15 Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

  • 15 Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • 16 Rules for the Priesthood The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 35 Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

  • 24 The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

  • 16 Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

  • 9 Then Moses said to Aaron,“Tell the whole community of the Israelites,‘Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.’”

  • 31 When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

  • 8 Moses said to Korah,“Listen now, you sons of Levi!

  • 6 Do this, Korah, you and all your company: Take censers,