Numbers 16:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Now. See note on "while", Numbers 15:32.

Korah. First cousin to Moses and Aaron. Numbers 6:8; 1 Chronicles 6:2; 1 Chronicles 6:3. These three associated, because encamped together on south side. Compare Numbers 2:10 and Numbers 3:29. See p. 181.

sons. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, read "son".

men. This word necessitated through Authorized Version and Revised Version misplacing the verb "took", which should be after Levi. "Korah took Dathan... and Abiram... and On, the son of Peleth, the son of Reuben". See below.

Numbers 16:1

1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: