Numbers 16:26

26 Moses warned the people, "Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don't touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins."

Numbers 16:26 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 16:26

And he spake unto the congregation
To the people of Israel assembled together on this occasion: some, out of ill will to Moses and Aaron, inclining to the side of Korah and his accomplices, and some out of curiosity to see the issue of this affair saying, depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men;
these turbulent, seditious, and ill-designing men, disturbers of the commonwealth and church of Israel, enemies to the peace of its civil and ecclesiastic state: and when Moses desires the people to depart from their tents, he means not only that they would remove in person, and stand at a distance, but such who had their tents, and families, and substance near them, would take care to remove, lest they should be destroyed with them: and touch nothing of theirs;
not carry off anything belonging to them along with their own, being all devoted to destruction: lest ye be consumed in all their sins;
lest partaking of their sins they should of their plagues, and die in their sins, as they would, or for them.

Numbers 16:26 In-Context

24 "Tell everyone to move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram."

25 Moses stood and went to Dathan and Abiram; the older leaders of Israel followed him.

26 Moses warned the people, "Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don't touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins."

27 So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram were standing outside their tents with their wives, children, and little babies.

28 Then Moses said, "Now you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things; it was not my idea.