12. Then believed they in His Devarim; they sang His tehillah.
13. Then they hurried, they forgot His ma'asim; they waited not for His etzah (counsel, advice, wisdom);
14. But lusted exceedingly in the midbar, and tempted G-d in the desert.
15. And He gave them their she'elah (request); but sent leanness into their nefesh.
16. They envied Moshe also in the machaneh, and Aharon the kadosh Hashem (Aaron the holy one of Hashem).
17. Eretz opened and swallowed up Datan and covered over the Adat Aviram (the company of Aviram).
18. And an eish was kindled in their edah (assembly); the flame burned up the resha'im.
19. They made an egel (a calf) in Chorev, and worshiped a massekhah (molden image).
20. Thus they exchanged their kavod for a tavnit shor (likeness of an ox) that eateth esev (grass).
21. They forgot G-d their Moshi'a, Who had done gedolot in Mitzrayim;
22. Nifla'ot (wondrous works) in Eretz Cham, and nora'ot (awesome things) by the Yam Suf.
23. Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moshe His bechir (chosen one) stood before Him in the peretz (breach), to turn away His wrath, lest He should destroy them.