They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
⛓ Read Numbers 16 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Korah's challenge to Moses and Aaron, disputing who authorized their elevation over the assembly, is another scriptural instance of leaders contesting a divinely given authority. It supplies a faint typological backdrop to the priests' question, with low volume and no verbal anchor.
Low confidenceKorah's challenge to Moses and Aaron, 'Why do you lift yourselves up above the assembly?,' is a paradigmatic disputing of divinely given authority, distantly resonant with the priests' interrogation.
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