15. So He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
16. Then they envied Moses in the camp, and also Aaron, the holy one of Adonai.
17. The earth opened up, swallowed Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
18. Also a fire blazed in their company, a flame consumed the wicked.
19. They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped a molten image.
20. Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a grass-eating ox.
21. They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt—
22. miracles in the land of Ham, awesome things by the Sea of Reeds.
23. So He commanded their extermination, had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him, to turn His wrath from destroying them.