24 Then they despised the pleasant land;they did not believe his promise.
25 They grumbled in their tentsand did not obey the Lord.
26 So he swore to them with uplifted handthat he would make them fall in the wilderness,
27 make their descendants fall among the nationsand scatter them throughout the lands.
28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peorand ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
29 they aroused the Lord’s anger by their wicked deeds,and a plague broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas stood up and intervened,and the plague was checked.