22. Wonders and miracles in the land of Ham, dreadful and awesome things at the Red Sea.
23. Therefore He said He would destroy them. [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the breach before Him to turn away His threatening wrath. [Exod. 32:10, 11, 32.]
24. Then they spurned and despised the pleasant and desirable land [Canaan]; they believed not His word [neither trusting in, relying on, nor holding to it];
25. But they murmured in their tents and hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
26. Therefore He lifted up His hand [as if taking an oath] against them, that He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
27. Cast out their descendants among the nations, and scatter them in the lands [of the earth].
28. They joined themselves also to the [idol] Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices [offered] to the lifeless [gods].
29. Thus they provoked the Lord to anger with their practices, and a plague broke out among them.