Korach, קֹרַח — 5/30/26

Torah: Numbers 16:1 - 16:13 (13)

Gospel: Luke 15:1-32 (32)

Passages

Torah — Numbers 16:1 - 16:13

LEB translation

Numbers 16:1 - 16:13

16:1 Korah, Dathan, and Abiram Rebel Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, the descendants of Reuben,
16:2 took two hundred and fifty men from the Israelites, leaders of the community summoned from the assembly, renowned men, and they confronted Moses.
16:3 They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, “You take too much upon yourselves! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?”
16:4 When Moses heard this, he fell on his face.
16:5 And he said to Korah and to his entire company, saying, “Tomorrow morning Yahweh will make known who is his and who is holy, and he will bring him near to him, whomever he chooses he will bring near to him.
16:6 Do this: take for yourselves censers, Korah and all of your company;
16:7 tomorrow put fire in them and place incense on them before Yahweh; the man whom Yahweh chooses will be the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, sons of Levi!”
16:8 And Moses said to Korah, “Please listen, sons of Levi!
16:9 Is it too little for you that the God of Israel set you apart from the community of Israel to allow you to approach him to do the work of the tabernacle of Yahweh, to stand before the community to serve them?
16:10 He has allowed you to approach him, you with all your brothers, the descendants of Levi, but yet you also seek the priesthood.
16:11 Therefore you and your company that has banded together against Yahweh. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?”
16:12 Moses sent to call for Dathan and Abiram son of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!
16:13 Is it too little that you have brought us from a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, and that you also appoint yourself as a ruler over us?

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Gospel — Luke 15:1-32

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Luke 15:1-32

15:1 The Parable of the Lost Sheep Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to hear him.
15:2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!”
15:3 So he told them this parable, saying,
15:4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?
15:5 And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
15:6 And when he returns to his home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!’
15:7 I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.
15:8 The Parable of the Lost Coin Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?
15:9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!’
15:10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
15:11 The Parable of the Lost Son And he said, “A certain man had two sons.
15:12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that is coming to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.
15:13 And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth by living wastefully.
15:14 And after he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.
15:15 And he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.
15:16 And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.
15:17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have an abundance of food, and I am dying here from hunger!
15:18 I will set out and go to my father and will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight!
15:19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.’
15:20 And he set out and came to his own father. But while he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
15:21 And his son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight! I am no longer worthy to be called your son!’
15:22 But his father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet!
15:23 And bring the fattened calf—kill it and let us eat and celebrate,
15:24 because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.
15:25 “Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.
15:26 And he summoned one of the slaves and asked what these things meant.
15:27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has gotten him back healthy.’
15:28 But he became angry and did not want to go in. So his father came out and began to implore him.
15:29 But he answered and said to his father, ‘Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
15:30 But when this son of yours returned—who has consumed your assets with prostitutes—you killed the fattened calf for him!’
15:31 But he said to him, ‘Child, you are always with me, and everything I have belongs to you.
15:32 But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!’”

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