Numbers 16:10
Good News Translation
He has let you and all the other Levites have this honor--and now you are trying to get the priesthood too!

New Revised Standard Version
He has allowed you to approach him, and all your brother Levites with you; yet you seek the priesthood as well!

Contemporary English Version
The LORD has given you a special responsibility, and now, Korah, you think you should also be his priest.

New American Bible
He has allowed you and your Levite kinsmen with you to approach him, and yet you seek the priesthood too.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,

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Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,

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Proverbs 13:10 Among the proud there are always contentions: but they that do all things with counsel, are ruled by wisdom.

Matthew 20:21,22 Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. . . .

Luke 22:24 And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should seem to be the greater.

Romans 12:10 Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

3 John 1:9 I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, doth not receive us.

Context
Korah's Rebellion
9Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the congregation of the people, and should minister to him? 10Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,11And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him?…
Cross References
Numbers 3:10
To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall be put to death.

Numbers 18:1
And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood.

Judges 17:12
And Michas filled his hand, and had the young man with him for his priest, saying:

Numbers 16:9
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