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Now Corah, when he said this, had a mind to appear to take care of
the public welfare, but in reality he was endeavoring to procure to have
that dignity transferred by the multitude to himself. Thus did he, out
of a malignant design, but with discourse to those of his own tribe; when
these words did gradually spread to more people, and when the hearers still
added to what tended to the scandals that were cast upon the whole army
was full of them. Now of those that conspired with Corah, there were two
hundred and fifty, and those of the principal men also, who were eager
to have the priesthood taken away from Moses's brother, and to bring him
into disgrace: nay, the multitude themselves were provoked to be seditious,
and attempted to stone Moses, wad gathered themselves together after an
indecent manner, with confusion and disorder. And now all were, in a tumultuous
manner, raising a before the tabernacle of God, to prosecute the tyrant,
and to relieve the multitude from their slavery under him who, under color
of the Divine laid violent injunctions upon them; for had it been God who
chose one that was to the office of a priest, he would have raised person
to that dignity, and would not produced such a one as was inferior to many
others nor have given him that office; and that in he had judged it fit
to bestow it on Aaron, he would have permitted it to the multitude to bestow
it, and not have left it to be bestowed by his own brother.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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