Rujukan Talmud untuk Bilangan 16:35: Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin

MISHNAH: The order of burning: One makes him sink into manure up to his knees²⁶To make the condemned lose partial consciousness from the methane gas coming from the manure., puts a stiff cloth into soft ones and winds them around his throat. One person draws in his direction, the other draws in his direction until he opens his mouth²⁷The two witnesses stand to either side of the condemned and choke him to force him to open his mouth. The coarse cloth is the one which chokes; the soft cloth is to shield the skin from injury. The entire procedure is modelled on the death of Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10:1–6) which is called “burning” (v. 6) but whose bodies were not injured externally (v. 5), and similarly the deaths of the 250 followers of Korah (Num. 16:35); Babli 52a.. Then one lights a wick²⁸Not really a wick but either liquid metal (Babli 52a) or burning oil. and throws it into his mouth that it enters his innards and chars his intestines. Rebbi Jehudah says, in that case, if he would die in their hands they would not have fulfilled the duty of burning²⁹By refusing to open his mouth, the condemned could force his executioners to choke him to death, which is considered the least painful kind of execution.; one opens his mouth forcefully with tongs, lights a wire and throws it into his mouth that it enters his innards and chars his intestines. Rebbi Eleazar ben Ṣadoq said, it happened that a Cohen’s daughter whored; they surrounded her with firewood and burned her. They told him, because the court at that time was incompetent³⁰Not incompetent but Sadducee (or in any case anti-Pharisee)..