Psalm 106:16-31

16In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD .

17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company of Abiram.

18Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.

19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

20They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

21They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

22miracles in the land of Ham and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

23So 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.

24Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.

25They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD .

26So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

27make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

28They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

29they aroused the LORD ’s anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

30But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.

31This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.