animal The Levites must work in the Temple To set aside a tithe each planting year and give it to a Levite The Levite must set aside a tenth of his tithe In the liturgy Some Jews read about how the earth swallowed Korah up in and how the controversy of Korah and his followers in was not for the sake of Heaven as they study Pirkei Avot chapter 5 on a Sabbath between Passover and Rosh Hashanah. And similarly, some Jews refer to the 24 priestly gifts deduced from and as they study chapter 6 of Pirkei Avot on another Sabbath between Passover and Rosh Hashanah. Haftarah The haftarah for the parashah is . When the parashah coincides with Shabbat Rosh Chodesh, the haftarah is . Notes Further reading The parashah has parallels or is discussed in these sources: Biblical (firstborn); (firstborn); (firstborn). (firstborn); (Korach, Dathan, Abiram). (firstborn). (not having taken a donkey). (firstborn). (rod blossomed); (elders burning incense); (individual responsibility). (God as inheritance); (go down alive into the nether-world); (Moses as God's chosen); , 29–30 (rebellion and earth swallowing; plague as God's punishment). Early nonrabbinic Pseudo-Philo 16:1–17:4. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 4:2:1–4, 3:1–4, 4:1–2, 4. Circa 93–94. In, e.g., The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition. Translated by William Whiston, pages 102–07. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1987. . Jude (Korah's rebellion). Pausanias. Description of Greece, 2:31:10. Greece, 2nd Century C.E. (After Heracles leaned his club against the image of Hermes, the club took root and grew.). Qur'an: 28:76–82; 29:39; 40:24–25. Arabia, circa 609–632. In, e.g., The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an. Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, pages 981–84, 996, 1211-12. Beltsville, Maryland: Amana Publications, 10th edition, 1997. . And in The Qur'an With Annotated Interpretation in Modern English. Translated by Ali Ünal, pages 815–17, 828, 965. Clifton, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2015. . (In the Qur'an, Korah is called Qarun.) Classical rabbinic Mishnah: Demai 1:1–7:8; Terumot 1:1–11:10; Challah 1:3; 4:9; Bikkurim 1:1–3:12; Chagigah 1:4; Sanhedrin 9:6; 10:3; Avot 5:6, 17; Bekhorot 8:8. Land of Israel, circa 200 C.E. In, e.g., The Mishnah: A New Translation. Translated by Jacob Neusner, pages 36–49, 93–120, 148, 157, 329, 345–53, 604–05, 686, 688, 806. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. . Tosefta: Demai 1:1–8:24; Terumot 1:1–10:18; Maaser Sheni 3:11; Challah 2:7, 9; Shabbat 15:7; Chagigah 3:19; Sotah 7:4; Sanhedrin 13:9; Bekhorot 1:5. Land of Israel, circa 300 C.E.