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When Moses had said this, with tears in his eyes, the ground was
moved on a sudden; and the agitation that set it in motion was like that
which the wind produces in waves of the sea. The people were all aftrighted;
and the ground that was about their tents sunk down at the great noise,
with a terrible sound, and carried whatsoever was dear to the seditious
into itself, who so entirely perished, that there was not the least appearance
that any man had ever been seen there, the earth that had opened itself
about them, closing again, and becoming entire as it was before, insomuch
that such as saw it afterward did not perceive that any such accident had
happened to it. Thus did these men perish, and become a demonstration of
the power of God. And truly, any one would lament them, not only on account
of this calamity that befell them, which yet deserves our commiseration,
but also because their kindred were pleased with their sufferings; for
they forgot the relation they bare to them, and at the sight of this sad
accident approved of the judgment given against them; and because they
looked upon the people about Dathan as pestilent men, they thought they
perished as such, and did not grieve for them.
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