“They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above the LORD’s assembly?””

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.