Chapter 15 of Numbers deals largely with more rules for sacrifice and then delves into those who unintentionally fail to keep the regulations set forth by God. There is a brief excerpt of someone who broke the Sabbath by working on that Holy Day and is then killed.
Chapter 16 starts with three of the clans banding together to confront Moses. They told him that he is setting himself up above everyone else. Moses then prayed on this. Afterwards, he invited them to come to the Tent to see whom God chooses. In the end, God causes the ground to swallow up these clans, for since they reject Moses they also reject the Lord.
The rest of the Israelites see this and plead for mercy from Aaron and Moses. They tried to keep the people from being near those who have perished, and Aaron quickly performs a ritual of purification to save the people from meeting with the same fate.
In the end, a great plague was averted.
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