Numbers 16:29

²⁷ So they moved away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram had come out and stood at the entrances to their tents with their wives and children and infants.

²⁸ Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things, for it was not my own doing:

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

³⁰ But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

³¹ As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,

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ÅB: Dersom disse folk dør på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, eller de hjemsøkes på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, da har Herren ikke sendt meg;
OTB: Hvis disse mennene dør en naturlig død, eller hvis de lider samme skjebne som alle mennesker, da har Herren ikke sendt meg.
B1930: Dersom disse folk dør på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, eller de hjemsøkes på samme måte som alle andre mennesker, da har Herren ikke sendt mig;

BSB: If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.
KJV: If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
WEB: If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me.
ASV: If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.
DARBY: if these men die as all men die, and are visited with the visitation of all men, Jehovah has not sent me;
BLB: If like the death of every man these ones die, or if the common fate of all men is visited upon them, [then] YHWH has not sent me.

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