You are going to a rich and fertile land. But I will not go with you myself, because you are a stubborn people, and I might destroy you on the way."

"Move back from these people, and I will destroy them on the spot!" The two of them bowed down with their faces to the ground,

and Moses said to Aaron, "Take your fire pan, put live coals from the altar in it, and put some incense on the coals. Then hurry with it to the people and perform the ritual of purification for them. Hurry! The LORD's anger has already broken out and an epidemic has already begun."

"Move back from these people, and I will destroy them immediately."

"Move back from these people, and I will destroy them on the spot!" The two of them bowed down with their faces to the ground,

We may suddenly die at night. God strikes us down and we perish; he kills the mighty with no effort at all.

They are instantly destroyed; they go down to a horrible end.

My people have been punished even more than the inhabitants of Sodom, which met a sudden downfall at the hands of God.

The Sovereign LORD Almighty was calling you then to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.

I must go down to find out whether or not the accusations which I have heard are true."

"Don't hurt the boy or do anything to him," he said. "Now I know that you honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him."

Remember how the LORD your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past forty years, sending hardships to test you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey his commands.

Examine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts.