30. Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
31. And that was counted unto him for righteousness, unto all generations for evermore.
32. They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
33. Because they were rebellious against his spirit, and he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
34. They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them;
35. But mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works:
36. And they served their idols; which became a snare unto them:
37. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
38. And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
39. Thus were they defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings.