16. The people became jealous of Moses. They became jealous of Aaron, the Lord’S holy priest.
17. The ground opened up and swallowed Dathan. Then the ground closed up and covered Abiram’s group.
18. Then a fire burned that mob of people. It burned those wicked people.
19. The people made a golden calf at Mount Horeb. They worshiped a statue!
20. They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull!
21. They forgot all about God, the one who saved them, the one who did the miracles in Egypt.
22. He did amazing things there in Ham’s country! He did awesome things at the Red Sea!
23. God wanted to destroy those people, but Moses, the leader he chose, stood in the way. God was very angry, but Moses begged him to stop, so God did not destroy the people.
24. But then they refused to go into the wonderful land of Canaan. They did not believe that God would help them defeat the people there.
25. Our ancestors complained in their tents and refused to obey the Lord.
26. So he swore that they would die in the desert.
27. He promised to scatter them among the nations and to let other people defeat their descendants.
28. At Baal Peor they joined in worshiping Baal and ate sacrifices to honor the dead.
29. The Lord became angry with his people, so he made them sick.