28 Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord sent me to do all these things and that it was not of my own will:
29 If these men die naturally as all people would, and suffer the fate of all, then the Lord has not sent me.
30 But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”
31 Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.
32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions.
33 They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. 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 because they thought, “The earth may swallow us too! ”