11 As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them:
there was not one of them left.
12 Then believed they his words: and sang praise unto him.
13 But within a while they forgat his works: and would not abide
his counsel.
14 But lust came upon them in the wilderness: and they tempted God
in the desert.
15 And he gave them their desire: and sent leanness withal into
their soul.
16 They angered Moses also in the tents: and Aaron the saint of
the Lord.
17 So the earth opened, and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the
congregation of Abiram.
18 And the fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt up
the ungodly.
19 They made a calf in Horeb: and worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calf
that eateth hay.
21 And they forgat God their Saviour: who had done so great things
in Egypt;
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham: and fearful things by the
Red sea.
23 So he said, he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his
chosen stood before him in the gap: to turn away his wrathful
indignation, lest he should destroy them.
24 Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land: and gave no
credence unto his word;
25 But murmured in their tents: and hearkened not unto the voice
of the Lord.
26 Then lift he up his hand against them: to overthrow them in the
wilderness;
27 To cast out their seed among the nations: and to scatter them
in the lands.
28 They joined themselves unto Baal-peor: and ate the offerings
of the dead.
29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions: and
the plague was great among them.
30 Then stood up Phinees and prayed: and so the plague ceased.
31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness: among all
posterities for evermore.
32 They angered mm also at the waters of strife: so that he
punished Moses for their sakes;
33 Because they provoked his spirit: so that he spake unadvisedly
with his lips.
34 Neither destroyed they the heathen: as the Lord commanded them;
35 But were mingled among the heathen: and learned their works.
36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to
their own decay: yea, they offered their sons and their daughters
unto devils;
37 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of
their daughters: whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan; and
the land was defiled with blood.
38 Thus were they stained with their own wor
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