26. Therefore he raised his hand and swore to themthat he would make them fall in the wilderness,
27. and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
28. Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor,and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;
29. they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,and a plague broke out among them.
30. Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,and the plague was stayed.
31. And that was counted to him as righteousnessfrom generation to generation forever.
32. They angered him at the waters of Meribah,and it went ill with Moses on their account,
33. for they made his spirit bitter,and he spoke rashly with his lips.
34. They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them,
35. but they mixed with the nationsand learned to do as they did.
36. They served their idols,which became a snare to them.
37. They sacrificed their sonsand their daughters to the demons;
38. they poured out innocent blood,the blood of their sons and daughters,whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,and the land was polluted with blood.
39. Thus they became unclean by their acts,and played the whore in their deeds.
40. Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,and he abhorred his heritage;