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- In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.
- The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company of Abiram.
- Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.
- At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
- They exchanged their Glory for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
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- They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
- miracles in the land of Ham and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
- So he said he would destroy them-- had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.
- Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.
- They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD.
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- So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the desert,
- make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
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