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Numbers 16:34

Numbers 16:34 is verse 34 of Numbers chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”

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King James Version

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

World English Bible

All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

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Numbers 16:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions.

33 They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

34 At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”

35 And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

36 Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 33:3

The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

Zechariah 14:5

You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

Revelation 6:15

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Revelation 6:16

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Revelation 6:17

For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

Numbers 17:12

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

Numbers 17:13

Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

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