18. And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
19. They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
20. And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
21. They forgot ·God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
22. Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
23. And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.
24. And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
25. But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
26. And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
27. And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
28. And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
29. And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
30. Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
31. And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
32. And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
33. For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34. They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;