Tafsiran Bilangan 16:34: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi, Kli Yakar & Rashbam

“Fled at their shrieks” [16:34]. Bahya writes that Korah and his group and their people were shrieking when they were falling and all of Israel were running away. They were afraid because of their screaming. They were shouting that Moses is true and his Torah is true, as the Talmud says. Rabbah the son of Hana said. I was going in the wilderness. A merchant said to me. I will show you the place where Korah sank into the earth. I saw that the earth was split and smoke rose from it. He took a spear and put some wool on it and the smoke singed the wool. The merchant said: listen to what they are saying. I heard them shouting, Moses is true and his Torah is true, and we are false liars. All the evildoers in Gehenna were shouting this, when they were being burned.²⁸Bahya, Numbers, 16:34.

God is just and He repays everything measure for measure. Because Korah wanted to hold himself high, the Holy One made him very lowly, and he sank into the earth. The two hundred and fifty men who brought fire pans to make the incense, even though they were not worthy of it. From here, each person should be warned not to tease people.²⁹Bahya, Numbers, 16:35.

נסו לקולם [AND ALL ISRAEL …] FLED AWAY AT THEIR VOICE — i.e. on account of the sound that broke out because of their being swallowed up.