then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

And Moses heard them weeping by their families, everyone in his door. And the Lord was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses.

But with the majority of them God was not pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Now all these things happened to those [people] as examples, and they were written for our instruction, to whom the ends of the ages have come.

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard [them] and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.

And the name of that place was called Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.

For a fire has been kindled out of My wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

For our God is a consuming fire.