Numbers 16:29
Good News Translation
If these men die a natural death without some punishment from God, then the LORD did not send me.

New Revised Standard Version
If these people die a natural death, or if a natural fate comes on them, then the LORD has not sent me.

Contemporary English Version
If these men die a natural death, it means the LORD hasn't chosen me.

New American Bible
if these die an ordinary death, merely suffering the fate common to all humanity, the LORD has not sent me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.

the common, etc.

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Exodus 32:34 But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.

Job 35:15 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

Isaiah 10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Jeremiah 5:9 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

Lamentations 4:22 Thau. Thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Sion, he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he hath visited thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he hath discovered thy sins.

the Lord

1 Kings 22:28 And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

2 Chronicles 18:27 And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

Context
The Earth Swallows Korah
28And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head: 29If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.30But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.…
Cross References
Revelation 11:5
And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their mouths and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, in this manner must he be slain.

Ecclesiastes 3:19
Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

Numbers 16:28
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