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.
24. Then they despised the eretz chemdah (desirable land); they believed not His Devar;
25. But murmured in their ohalim, and paid heed not unto the kol (voice) of Hashem.
26. Therefore [in oath] He lifted up His yad against them, that He would overthrow them in the midbar;
27. To make their zera fall also among the Goyim, and to scatter them among the aratzot (lands).
28. They joined themselves also unto Ba'al-Pe'or, and ate the zivkhei mesim (sacrifices offered to the dead).