But they revolted against Me, and would not hearken to Me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them, to accomplish My wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long are you unwilling to heed My commands and My law?

they have quickly gone out of the way which you have commanded; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said,

For all the men who see My glory, and the signs which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to My voice,

And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.

And now I shall utterly destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

And when I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made for yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;

And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you sinned in doing evil before the Lord God, to provoke Him.

And He was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord.

You were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which He became known to you.

For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you not also be so after my death?

According to all their doings which they have done to Me, from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day, even as they have deserted Me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not hearken to Your commandments,

And still farther they even made for themselves a molded calf, and said, These [are] the gods that brought us up out of Egypt: and they worked great provocations.

How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, [and] anger Him in a dry land!

Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of trial in the wilderness;

Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

They made haste, they forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel.

And He gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiram.

And they made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the graven image,

They forgot God that saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt;

So He said that He would have destroyed them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn [Him] away from the fierceness of His anger, so that He should not destroy them.

And they murmured in their tents; they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

and destruction was multiplied among them.

And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations forever.

for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke [unadvisedly] with his lips.

But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

because they rejected My ordinances, and walked not in My commandments, but profaned My Sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.

because they kept not My ordinances, and rejected My commandments, and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

but disobey them, and your soul should loathe My judgments, so that you should not keep all My commands, so as to break My covenant,

And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her Sabbaths, when it is deserted through them; and they shall accept [the punishment of] their iniquities, because they neglected My judgments, and in their soul loathed My ordinances.

Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in His eyes? You have slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

but you disdained my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;

He that slights a matter shall be slighted of it, but he that fears the commandment has health [of soul]. [ 13:13A] To a crafty son there shall be nothing good, but a wise servant shall have his way prosperous.

Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His ordinances, and their vain [idols] which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

Therefore he who rejects [this] does not reject man, but God, who has given His Holy Spirit to you.

Anyone disregarding the law of Moses dies without compassions on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

By how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them.

And it came to pass on the seventh day that some of the people went forth to gather, and found none.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long are you unwilling to heed My commands and My law?

for he has despised the word of the Lord, and broken His commands; that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin [is] upon him.

And they who found him gathering sticks on the Sabbath day brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man by all means be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones.

And [I will give it] to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to Him servants and handmaids; and [as for] all that keep My Sabbaths, from profaning [them], and that take hold of My covenant,

But they revolted against Me, and would not hearken to Me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them, to accomplish My wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.

But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them.

Now therefore let Me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make you a great nation.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will these people provoke Me? And how long do they refuse to believe Me for all the signs which I have done among them?

I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of you and of your father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.

Your caracasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against Me,

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once.

Depart out of the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once. And they fell upon their faces.

These [are] the families of Issachar according to their numbering: sixty-four thousand four hundred.

Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you;

So He said that He would have destroyed them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn [Him] away from the fierceness of His anger, so that He should not destroy them.