27To cast out their seed among the nations, *
and to scatter them throughout the lands.
28They joined themselves to Baal‑Peor *
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
29They provoked him to anger with their actions, *
and a plague broke out among them.
30Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, *
and the plague came to an end.
31This was reckoned to him as righteousness *
throughout all generations for ever.
32Again they provoked his anger at the waters of Meribah, *
so that he punished Moses because of them;
33For they so embittered his spirit *
that he spoke rash words with his lips.
34They did not destroy the peoples *
as the Lord had commanded them.
35They intermingled with the heathen *
and learned their pagan ways,
36So that they worshiped their idols, *
which became a snare to them.
37They sacrificed their sons *
and their daughters to evil spirits.
38They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters, *
which they offered to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was defiled with blood.
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