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.
30. Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and so the plague was stopped,
31. and it was reckoned to him as righteousness throughout all generations.