They, i.e. Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, last mentioned. Rose up, i.e. conspired together, and put their seditious design in execution. Before Moses; not privily and obscurely, but openly and boldly, not fearing nor regarding the presence of Moses, who was an eye-witness of their conspiracy. Famous, for place and birth.
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Numbers 16:2
2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: