“And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.”
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign — The divine judgment is recounted in spare, devastating terms: the earth itself becomes an instrument of judgment, swallowing the rebels. The 'sign' (ot) they became is a perpetual warning embedded in Israel's memory. The second generation reads this history in the census itself.
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