Numbers 16, the entire chapter, was a very sobering read today.
A portion of the chapter:
[SUP]44 [/SUP]And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [SUP]45 [/SUP]Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. [SUP]46 [/SUP]And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.
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47 [/SUP]And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. [SUP]48 [/SUP]And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. [SUP]49 [/SUP]Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. [SUP]50 [/SUP]And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.