Korach, קֹרַח — 6/13/26

Torah: Numbers 16:20 - 17:8 (24)

Gospel: Luke 16:16-31 (16)

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Torah — Numbers 16:20 - 17:8

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Numbers 16:20 - 17:8

16:20 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
16:21 “Separate yourselves from the midst of this community, that I can destroy them in a moment.”
16:22 And they fell on their faces, and they said, “God, God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and you become angry toward the entire community?”
16:23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
16:24 “Speak to the community, saying, ‘Move away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’”
16:25 So Moses stood up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel followed after him.
16:26 He said to the community, saying, “Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be destroyed with all their sins.”
16:27 And so they moved away from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out standing at the doorway of their tents, with their wives, sons, and little children.
16:28 And Moses said, “In this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; it is not from my heart.
16:29 If they die a natural death or if a natural fate is visited upon them, Yahweh has not sent me.
16:30 But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and all that belongs to them, and they go down alive to Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh.”
16:31 And it happened, as soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open.
16:32 The land opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their houses and every person that belonged to Korah and all the property.
16:33 They went down alive to Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
16:34 All Israel who were around them fled at their cry, because they said, “Lest the land swallow us up!”
16:35 And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense.
16:36 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
16:37 “Say to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ‘Take out the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside.
16:38 The censers of these who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them before Yahweh, they are holy; and they will be a sign for the Israelites.’”
16:39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly as plating for the altar;
16:40 it was a memorial for the Israelites, so that no strange man who is not from the offspring of Aaron should approach the presence of Yahweh to burn a smoke offering; he will not be like Korah and his company, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.
16:41 The Israelites Grumble The next day all the community of the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of Yahweh!”
16:42 Then, when the community had gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned to the tent of assembly, and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.
16:43 And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of assembly,
16:44 and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
16:45 “Get away from the midst of this community, and I will finish them in an instant,” but they fell on their faces.
16:46 And Moses and Aaron said, “Take the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense on it, and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun.”
16:47 And so Aaron took it just as Moses had spoken, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people; so he gave the incense and made atonement for the people.
16:48 He stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was stopped.
16:49 Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Korah.
16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the plague was stopped.
17:1 Aaron’s Staff Is Chosen Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
17:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and take from among them twelve staffs, a staff from each family from among all their leaders according to their families’ households. Write the name of each man on his staff,
17:3 and the name of Aaron on the staff of Levi, because one staff is for the head of each of their families.
17:4 You must then put them in the tent of assembly before the testimony where I meet with you.
17:5 And it will happen, the man whom I will choose, his staff will blossom, and so I will rid from upon myself the grumblings of the Israelites, who are grumbling against you.”
17:6 Moses spoke to the Israelites, and all their leaders gave him a staff for each leader, one from each of their families, twelve staffs, and the staff of Aaron was in the midst of their tribes.
17:7 And Moses put the staffs before Yahweh in the tent of testimony.
17:8 Then the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed and put forth a flower and produced blossoms, and it produced almonds.

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Gospel — Luke 16:16-31

LEB translation

Luke 16:16-31

16:16 “The law and the prophets were until John; from that time on the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it.
16:17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid.
16:18 On Divorce “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
16:19 The Rich Man and Lazarus “Now a certain man was rich, and dressed in purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.
16:20 And a certain poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, lay at his gate,
16:21 and was longing to be filled with what fell from the table of the rich man. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.
16:22 Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
16:23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes as he was in torment and saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus at his side.
16:24 And he called out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!’
16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good things during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain.
16:26 And in addition to all these things, a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able to do so, nor can they cross over from there to us.’
16:27 So he said, ‘Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father’s house,
16:28 for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!’
16:29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must listen to them.’
16:30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!’
16:31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.’”

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