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 To cast out their seed among the nations, * and to scatter them throughout the lands.

They joined themselves to Baal&#8209;Peor * and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

They provoked him to anger with their actions, * and a plague broke out among them.

Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, * and the plague came to an end.

This was reckoned to him as righteousness * throughout all generations for ever.

Again they provoked his anger at the waters of Meribah, * so that he punished Moses because of them;

For they so embittered his spirit * that he spoke rash words with his lips.

They did not destroy the peoples * as the had commanded them.

They intermingled with the heathen * and learned their pagan ways,

So that they worshiped their idols, * which became a snare to them.

They sacrificed their sons * and their daughters to evil spirits.

They 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.