And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not [in them], and they rejected My ordinances, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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 the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Go quickly, descend from here, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed;

These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Why, O Lord, are You very angry with Your people, whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with Your mighty arm?

remembering Abraham and Isaac and Jacob Your servants, to whom You have sworn by Yourself, and have spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which You spoke of to give to them, so that they shall possess it forever.

And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hands, tablets of stone written on both their sides: they were written within and without.

And Joshua, having heard the voice of the people crying, said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

And when he drew near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dances; and Moses, being very angry, cast the two tablets out of his hands and broke them to pieces under the mountain.

And Moses said to Aaron, What have this people done to you, that you have brought such a great sin upon them?

For they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us; as for this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

And when Moses saw that the people were scattered (for Aaron [had] scattered them [so as to be] a rejoicing to their enemies)

And he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Let every man put his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his neighbor, and every man that is nearest to him.

And Moses said to them, You have filled your hands this day to the Lord, each one on his son or on his brother, so that blessing should be given to you.

And Moses returned to the Lord and said, I pray, O Lord, this people have sinned a great sin, and they have made for themselves golden gods.

And the Lord said to Moses, If anyone has sinned against Me, I will blot them out of My book.

And the Lord struck the people for the making of the calf, which Aaron made.

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.

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt; and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the garlic, and the onions.

And the manna is as coriander seed, and the appearance of it is as bdellium.

And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.

And Moses said to the Lord, Why have You afflicted Your servant, and why have I not found grace in Your sight, that You should lay the weight of this people upon me?

Where am I to get the meat to give to all these people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat.

And if You do thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favor with You, that I may not see my affliction.

And I will go down, and speak there with you; and I will take of the spirit that is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with you the burden of the people, and you shall not bear them alone.

You shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;

And Moses said, The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand footmen; and You said, I will give them meat to eat, and they shall eat a whole month.

And the Lord said to Moses, Shall not the hand of the Lord be fully sufficient? Now shall you know whether My word shall come to pass to you or not.

And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.

And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad are prophesying in the camp.

And Moses said to him, Are you jealous on my account? And would that all the Lord's people were prophets; whenever the Lord shall put His spirit upon them.

And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.

The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was angry with the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

The people departed from the Graves of Lust to Asheroth; and the people halted at Asheroth.

And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept all that night.

If only we would have died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we would have died in this wilderness! And why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? Our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.

And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.

and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.

Only depart not from the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they shall be as food to us; for the season [of prosperity] has departed from them, but the Lord [is] among us; fear them not.

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?

And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for You have brought up this people from them by Your might.

And [if] You shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard Your name shall speak, saying,

And now, O Lord, let Your strength be exalted, as You spoke, saying,

Forgive this people their sin according to Your great mercy, as You were favorable to them from Egypt until now.

But [as] I live, and as My name lives, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.

surely they shall not see the land, which I swore to their fathers; but their children which are with Me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them shall I give the land; but none who have provoked Me shall see it.

But Amalek and the Canaanite dwell in the valley. Tomorrow, turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

How long [shall I endure] this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against Me, [even] the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you.

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 your little ones, who you said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which you rejected.

And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your caracasses are consumed in the wilderness.

I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.

the men that spoke evil reports against the land, died of the plague before the Lord.

And Moses spoke these words to all the children of Israel; and the people mourned exceedingly.

And Moses said, Why do you transgress the word of the Lord? You shall not prosper.

For Amalek and the Canaanite [are] there before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you.

And Amalek and the Canaanite that dwelt in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them unto Herman; and they returned to the camp.

And Korah the son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron, sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth the son of Reuben, spoke;

They rose up against Moses and Aaron, and said, Let it be enough for you that all the congregation [is] holy, and the Lord [is] among them; and why do you set up yourselves against the congregation of the Lord?

And he spoke to Korah and all his assembly, saying, God has visited and known those that are His and who are holy, and has brought them to Himself; and whom He has chosen for Himself, He has brought to Himself.

and put fire on them, and put incense on them before the Lord tomorrow; and it shall come to pass that the man whom the Lord has chosen, he shall be holy: let it be enough for you, you sons of Levi.

Is it a little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to Himself to minister in the services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for them?

Thus [it is with] you and all your congregation which is gathered together against God: and who is Aaron, that you murmur against him?

Is it a little thing that you have brought us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, [and] that you altogether rule over us?

And Moses was exceeding indignant, and said to the Lord, Take no heed to their sacrifice; I have not taken away the desire of anyone of them, neither have I hurt anyone of them.

And take each man his censer, and you shall put incense upon them, and shall bring each one his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers, and you and Aaron shall bring each his censer.

And Korah raised up against them all his company by the door of the tabernacle of witness; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.

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

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and all the elders of Israel went with him.

And they stood aloof from the tent of Korah round about; and Dathan and Abiram went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store.

If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground split apart beneath them.

And they went down, [they] and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, Take up the bronze censers out of the midst of the men that have been burned, and scatter the strange fire yonder, for they have sanctified the censers

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest took the bronze censers, which the men who had been burned brought near, and they put them as a covering on the altar,

And the children of Israel murmured the next day against Moses and Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord.

And Moses and Aaron went in, in front of the tabernacle of witness.

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

And Aaron did as Moses spoke to him, and ran among the congregation, for already the plague had begun among the people; and he put in the incense, and made an atonement for the people.

And those that died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those that died on account of Korah.

And Israel sojourned in Shittim, and the people profaned themselves by committing harlotry with the daughters of Moab.

And Israel consecrated themselves to Baal of Peor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Every one of you kill his friend that is consecrated to Baal of Peor.

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand,

And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused My wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in My jealousy.

and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

And the name of the Midianite woman who was smitten, [was] Cozbi, daughter of Zur, a prince of the nation of Hommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Midian.

Harass the Midianites as enemies, and strike them,

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 were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works.

And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,

and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring by their own deeds.

And He delivered them into the hands of [their] enemies; and they that hated them ruled over them.

Many a time He delivered them; but they provoked Him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities.

And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy.

Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

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

Nor be idolaters, just as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

nor let us tempt Christ, just as also some of them tempted [Him], and were destroyed by the serpents;