17 The earth opened and swallowed Dathan,it closed on the followers of Abiram.
18 Against their company the fire blazed;flames consumed the wicked.
19 At Horeb they fashioned a calf,worshiped a metal statue.
20 They exchanged their gloryfor the image of a grass-eating bull.
21 They forgot the God who had saved them,who had done great deeds in Egypt,
22 Amazing deeds in the land of Ham,fearsome deeds at the Red Sea.
23 He would have decreed their destruction,had not Moses, his chosen one,Withstood him in the breachto turn back his destroying anger.