26. And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
27. And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
28. And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
29. And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
30. Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
31. And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
32. And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
33. For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34. They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;
35. But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
36. And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
37. And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
38. And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
39. And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
40. Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
41. And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:
42. And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43. Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.