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13 Speedily they forgot his works, they waited not for his counsel;
14 And they felt a lustful longing in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
15 And he gave them what they had asked; but sent dryness into their soul.
16 Moreover they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered over the company of Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed themselves down to a molten image.
20 And they exchanged their glory for the similitude of an ox that eateth herbs.
21 They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
22 Wonders in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
23 He therefore spoke of destroying them: had not Moses his elect stood in the breach before him, to turn away his fury, that he might not destroy.
24 And they despised the pleasant land, they believed not in his word;
25 But they murmured in their tents, they hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
26 He therefore lifted up his hand against them, to cause them to fall in the wilderness;
27 And to let their seed fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
28 And they joined themselves unto Ba’al-pe’or, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29 And they provoked him to anger with their deeds: and there broke in among them the plague.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and the plague was stayed.
31 And it was accounted unto him for righteousness, unto all generations for evermore.
32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, and evil happened to Moses for their sake;