23. And he said that he would destroy them, yet Moses, his elect, stood firm before him in the breach, in order to avert his wrath, lest he destroy them.
24. And they held the desirable land to be nothing. They did not trust in his word.
25. And they murmured in their tabernacles. They did not heed the voice of the Lord.
26. And he lifted up his hand over them, in order to prostrate them in the desert,
27. and in order to cast their offspring among the nations, and to scatter them among the regions.
28. And they were initiated into Baal of Peor, and they ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29. And they provoked him with their inventions, and ruination was multiplied in them.
30. Then Phinehas stood up and placated him: and so the violent disturbance ceased.
31. And it was reputed to him unto justice, from generation to generation, even forever.
32. And they provoked him at the Waters of Contradiction, and Moses was afflicted because of them,
33. for they exasperated his spirit. And so he divided them with his lips.