Numbers 16:12-14

The Voice

¹² Bring the brothers Dathan and Abiram (Eliab’s sons) to me.

Dathan and Abiram: Forget it. We are not going to come running at your bidding. ¹³ You took us out of a place that was so rich—Egypt, flowing with milk and honey—in order to let us die in this desert wasteland, and now you’re actually trying to assert yourself as our ruler. ¹⁴ You haven’t brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey or delivered on your promise of fields and vineyards to call our own. What else will you do? Are you going to pluck out the eyes of these 250 men now? There’s no way we’re coming to you.