30 But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty,and the plague was stopped.
31 This has been remembered in his favour ever sinceand will be for all time to come.
32 At the springs of Meribah the people made the Lord angry,and Moses was in trouble on their account.
33 They made him so bitterthat he spoke without stopping to think.
34 They did not kill the heathen,as the Lord had commanded them to do,
35 but they intermarried with themand adopted their pagan ways.
36 God's people worshipped idols,and this caused their destruction.