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.
39. They made themselves impure by their actionsand were unfaithful to God.