29. Thus they provoked Him to anger with their inventions; and the magefah (plague) broke out among them.
30. Then stood up Pinchas, and interposed; and so the magefah (plague) was halted.
31. And that was counted unto him for tzedakah l'dor vador ad olam.
32. They angered Him also at the waters of Merivah, so that it went ill with Moshe on their account;
33. Because they provoked His Ruach [Hakodesh] and he [Moshe] spoke unadvisedly with his sfatayim (lips).
34. They did not destroy the amim (peoples), as Hashem commanded them;
35. But they mingled with the Goyim, and learned their ma'asim (works, customs).
36. And they served their atzabim (idols); which were a mokesh (snare) unto them.
37. And, they sacrificed their banim and their banot unto shedim (demons),
38. And they shed dahm naki (innocent blood), even the dahm of their banim and of their banot, whom they sacrificed unto the atzabei Kena'an (idols of Canaan); and HaAretz was polluted with blood-guilt.