Few figures are so maligned in the Old Testament as Korah, leader of the failed rebellion against Moses at Sinai (Numbers 16). In punishment for his blasphemous audacity, Korah – together with his ...

Now Korah, son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On, son of Peleth — descendants of Reuben — to rise up against Moses, together with ...

And it is they and their families who are swallowed up by the earth – not Korah (Num. 16:26-35). They receive their just punishment, disappearing into the earth, because it was the fruitfulness of the ...

Literally – he opens up the earth, and Korah and his followers are swallowed alive. The rabbis of the Midrash were more graceful. They only buried him literarily and morally – projecting upon him ...