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.
34. They did not destroy the nations, about which the Lord had spoken to them.
35. And they were mixed among the Gentiles. And they learned their works,
36. and they served their graven images, and it became a scandal to them.
37. And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38. And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters, which they sacrificed to the graven images of Canaan. And the land was infected with bloodshed,
39. and was contaminated with their works. And they fornicated according to their own inventions.
40. And the Lord became furiously angry with his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.
41. And he delivered them into the hands of the nations. And those who hated them became rulers over them.
42. And their enemies afflicted them, and they were humbled under their hands.
43. Many times, he delivered them. Yet they provoked him with their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities.