¹⁰ and ^(A)the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and ^(B)they became a warning.

³⁸ As for the censers of ^(A)these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. ^(B)Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”

⁶ if by ^(A)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, ^(B)making them an example of ^(C)what is going to happen to the ungodly;^[a]

^31 (A)And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart. ³² And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and ^(B)all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods. ³³ So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and ^(C)they perished from the midst of the assembly. ³⁴ And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!” ³⁵ And ^(D)fire came out from the Lord and consumed ^(E)the 250 men offering the incense.

⁷ just as ^(A)Sodom and Gomorrah and ^(B)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and ^(C)pursued unnatural desire,^[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

⁶ Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as ^(A)they did. ^7 (B)Do not be idolaters ^(C)as some of them were; as it is written, ^(D)“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” ^8 (E)We must not indulge in sexual immorality ^(F)as some of them did, and ^(G)twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. ⁹ We must not put Christ^[a] to the test, ^(H)as some of them did and ^(I)were destroyed by serpents, ¹⁰ nor grumble, ^(J)as some of them did and ^(K)were destroyed by ^(L)the Destroyer.

⁸ And ^(A)I will set my face against that man; I ^(B)will make him a sign and a byword ^(C)and cut him off from the midst of my people, ^(D)and you shall know that I am the Lord.

^22 (A)Because of them ^(B)this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, ^(C)whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”