23. And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
24. And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,
25. and they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
26. And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;
27. And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.
28. They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29. And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
30. Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.
31. And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.
32. They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:
33. because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.
34. They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.
35. And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:
36. and served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.
37. And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.
38. And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,