“So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 16 contains 50 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

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