15. So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls.
16. And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.
17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it covered over the gang of Abiram.
18. Also fire burned in their assembly; the flame devoured the wicked.
19. They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.
20. And so they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass.
21. They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
22. wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23. So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying them.
24. Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word,