Focus Text: Numbers 16:41-50
\nOn the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, saying, \u201cYou have killed the people of the Lord.\u201d Now it happened, when the congregation had gathered against Moses and Aaron, that they turned toward the tabernacle of meeting; and suddenly the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. Then Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of meeting.
\nAnd the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, \u201cGet away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.\u201d
\nAnd they fell on their faces.
\nSo Moses said to Aaron, \u201cTake a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the Lord. The plague has begun.\u201d Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and already the plague had begun among the people. So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; so the plague was stopped. Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident. So Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, for the plague had stopped.