28 Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baaland ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
29 They stirred up the Lord's anger by their actions,and a terrible disease broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty,and the plague was stopped.
31 This has been remembered in his favor 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,