your incense in public before all the people; and when you offer
it, he whose sacrifice God shall accept shall be ordained to the
priesthood, and shall be clear of the present calumny on Aaron,
as if I had granted him that favor because he was my brother."

CHAPTER 3.

How Those That Stirred Up This Sedition Were Destroyed, According
To The Will Of God; And How Aaron, Moses's Brother Both He And
His Posterity, Retained The Priesthood.

1. When Moses had said this, the multitude left off the turbulent
behavior they had indulged, and the suspicion they had of Moses,
and commended what he had said; for those proposals were good,
and were so esteemed of the people. At that time therefore they
dissolved the assembly. But on the next day they came to the
congregation, in order to be present at the sacrifice, and at the
determination that was to be made between the candidates for the
priesthood. Now this congregation proved a turbulent one, and the
multitude were in great suspense in expectation of what was to be
done; for some of them would have been pleased if Moses had been
convicted of evil practices, but the wiser sort desired that they
might be delivered from the present disorder and disturbance; for
they were afraid, that if this sedition went on, the good order
of their settlement would rather be destroyed; but the whole body
of the people do naturally delight in clamors against their
governors, and, by changing their opinions upon the harangues of
every speaker, disturb the public tranquillity. And now Moses
sent messengers for Abiram and Dathan, and ordered them to come
to the assembly, and wait there for the holy offices that were to