Numbers 16:26

And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

Cross-references

Numbers 16:21–24 Historical context

Numbers 16:21-24 contains God's initial separation command and Moses' intercession—here Moses enacts the warning.

Numbers 16:45 shows God commanding Moses to separate from the congregation so He can consume them — echoes the same separation principle to escape destruction.

In Genesis 19:12-14, Lot warns his family to flee Sodom before judgment — a parallel call to separate from the doomed.

Deuteronomy 13:17 commands not to take any of the devoted things from a condemned city, mirroring the warning to touch nothing from Korah's tents.

Joshua 7:13-15 commands separation from Achan and his devoted things—mirrors the warning here to avoid the rebels' tents.

Isaiah 52:11 echoes the same command: 'Depart, touch no unclean thing' — a prophetic call to leave Babylon and purify.

2 Corinthians 6:17 directly applies the OT principle: 'Come out from their midst and be separate' — a NT call to holiness.

Revelation 18:4 echoes the same command: 'Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her plagues' — a direct parallel to departing from doomed sinners.

In Genesis 19:14, Lot warns his sons-in-law to flee Sodom — a direct parallel to Moses warning the congregation to separate from Korah's tents to avoid judgment.

In 1 Samuel 15:6, Saul warns the Kenites to depart from the Amalekites — a near-identical command to separate from the wicked to avoid destruction.

Jeremiah 50:8 calls for departure from Babylon before its fall — a clear parallel to Moses' command to leave the tents of the wicked to avoid destruction.

Jeremiah 51:6 echoes this same call to flee from sinners to avoid being swept away in judgment — both urge separation from the wicked.

Jeremiah 51:45 repeats the command 'Come out of her, my people!' — identical warning to separate from a doomed city.

Zechariah 2:7 again calls God's people to escape from Babylon — same motif of fleeing judgment by separation.

Luke 21:21 Parallel

Luke 21:21 commands fleeing from Jerusalem facing destruction — same urgent separation from a place under judgment.

Ephesians 5:7 commands not to be partners with sinners — directly parallels the command to stay away from the wicked here.