Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
Speak unto the congregation ... Get you up from about the tabernacle. Moses was attended in the execution of this mission by the elders - i:e., in all probability, the council of seventy (see the note at Numbers 11:16), whose influence was exercised by moral persuasion only; because their appointment did not supersede nor interfere with the power vested in the national representatives of the people-to which latter order Korah and his associates belonged. The united and urgent entrearies of so many dignified personages produced the desired effect of convincing the people of their crime, and of withdrawing them from the company of men who were doomed to destruction, lest, being partakers of their sins, they should perish along with them.