25. They stayed in their tents and grumbledand would not listen to the Lord.
26. So he gave them a solemn warningthat he would make them die in the desert
27. and scatter their descendants among the heathen,letting them die in foreign countries.
28. Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal,and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
29. They stirred up the Lord's anger by their actions,and a terrible disease broke out among them.
30. But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty,and the plague was stopped.
31. This has been remembered in his favour ever sinceand will be for all time to come.
32. At the springs of Meribah the people made the Lord angry,and Moses was in trouble on their account.
33. They made him so bitterthat he spoke without stopping to think.
34. They did not kill the heathen,as the Lord had commanded them to do,
35. but they intermarried with themand adopted their pagan ways.
36. God's people worshipped idols,and this caused their destruction.
37. They offered their own sons and daughtersas sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
38. They killed those innocent children,and the land was defiled by those murders.