“But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.”
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah's men and all their possessions' — the earth's opening (va-tipchat ha-aretz et-piha) swallows the rebels, their families, and their possessions; the totality of the destruction (rebellion and all its holdings) emphasizes that this is not partial punishment but complete annihilation.
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