Deuteronomy 11:6

what he did unto Dathan and Abiram The severity of God's discipline was not only shown to Israel's enemies, but in the midst of all Israelto rebellious Israelites. Without such a recollection, the description of that discipline, especially in view of the alarm it was fitted to inspire, would not be complete. This answers Steuern."s argument that the verse is secondary, on the grounds that there was no reason to mention specially this one out of all the divine punishments inflicted on Israel, and that with the phrase in the midst of all Israelthe people are not directly addressed, and that the form of the discourse is thus broken. On the contrary, as shown above, the phrase suits the speaker's purpose, cp. Deuteronomy 17:4; Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 23:16 (17). The event is described in Numbers 16, a passage compounded of JE and P (see Numbersin this series). This verse partly repeats the phraseology of JE, with some variations (e.g. a different verb for opened), cp. Numbers 16:1 b, Numbers 16:26-27 b(tents), Numbers 16:30 (all that appertained unto them), Numbers 16:32 a. And, like JE, D mentions Dathan and Abiram alone as the victims of the judgement. Instead of them P mentions Korah. This is another illustration of the consistency with which D follows JE, and was either ignorant of, or deliberately ignored P. It is interesting that Sam. adds to D's statement -and all the men belonging to Korah."