15. So he gave them what they asked for. But he also sent a sickness that killed many of them.
16. In their camp some of them became jealous of Moses. They were also jealous of Aaron. He had been set apart to serve the Lord.
17. The ground opened up and swallowed Dathan. It buried Abiram and his followers.
18. Fire blazed among all of them. Flames destroyed those evil people.
19. At Mount Horeb they made a metal statue of a bull calf. They worshiped that statue of a god.
20. They traded their glorious God for a statue of a bull that eats grass.
21. They forgot the God who saved them. They forgot the One who had done great things in Egypt.
22. They forgot the miracles he did in the land of Ham. They forgot the wonderful things he did by the Red Sea.
23. So he said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood up for them. He kept God's anger from destroying them.