Numbers 16:31
Good News Translation
As soon as he had finished speaking, the ground under Dathan and Abiram split open

New Revised Standard Version
As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them was split apart.

Contemporary English Version
As soon as Moses said this, the ground under the men opened up

New American Bible
No sooner had he finished saying all this than the ground beneath them split open,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:

Numbers 26:10,1 And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought, . . .

Numbers 27:3 Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father.

Deuteronomy 11:6 And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.

Psalm 106:17,18 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron. . . .

Context
The Earth Swallows Korah
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. 31And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:32And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.…
Cross References
Jude 1:11
Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have perished in the contradiction of Core.

Numbers 16:30
But 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.

Numbers 16:32
And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.

Numbers 20:3
And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

Isaiah 24:19
With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved.

Numbers 16:30
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