23. So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying them.
24. Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word,
25. but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.
26. So he made an oath against them, to make them drop in the wilderness,
27. and to disperse their descendants among the nations and to scatter them among the lands.
28. They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
29. Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.