Ezekiel 20:36 Long ago, I judged your people in the desert of Egypt. In the same way, I will judge you,” announces the Lord and King.

20:36 NIrV

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New International Reader's Version - Long ago, I judged your people in the desert of Egypt. In the same way, I will judge you,” announces the Lord and King.
新标点和合本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必照样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必照样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
当代译本 - 我从前在埃及的旷野怎样审判你们的祖先，也必怎样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
圣经新译本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必怎样审判你们。这是主耶和华的宣告。
现代标点和合本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
和合本（拼音版） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
New International Version - As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign Lord.
English Standard Version - As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God.
New Living Translation - I will judge you there just as I did your ancestors in the wilderness after bringing them out of Egypt, says the Sovereign Lord.
The Message - “‘As I faced your parents with judgment in the desert of Egypt, so I’ll face you with judgment. I’ll scrutinize and search every person as you arrive, and I’ll bring you under the bond of the covenant. I’ll cull out the rebels and traitors. I’ll lead them out of their exile, but I won’t bring them back to Israel. “‘Then you’ll realize that I am God.
Christian Standard Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
New American Standard Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God.
New King James Version - Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord God.
Amplified Bible - As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment and contend with you,” says the Lord God.
American Standard Version - Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
King James Version - Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
New English Translation - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign Lord.
World English Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
新標點和合本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野刑罰你們的列祖，也必照樣刑罰你們。這是主耶和華說的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必照樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必照樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
當代譯本 - 我從前在埃及的曠野怎樣審判你們的祖先，也必怎樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
聖經新譯本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必怎樣審判你們。這是主耶和華的宣告。
呂振中譯本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野判罰你們祖先，我也要怎樣判罰你們：這是主永恆主發神諭說的。
現代標點和合本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野刑罰你們的列祖，也必照樣刑罰你們。這是主耶和華說的。
文理和合譯本 - 我鞫爾、如在埃及曠野鞫爾列祖、主耶和華言之矣、
文理委辦譯本 - 與昔在埃及曠野、斥爾祖之非無異、我耶和華、已言之矣。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我斥爾非、如昔在伊及曠野斥爾祖之非、或作我必審鞫爾如昔在伊及曠野審鞫爾祖然此乃主天主所言、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así como juzgué a sus antepasados en el desierto de Egipto, también los juzgaré a ustedes. Yo, el Señor omnipotente, lo afirmo.
현대인의 성경 - 내가 너희 조상들을 이집트 땅에서 이끌어낸 후에 광야에서 그들을 심문한 것처럼 너희를 심문하겠다. 이것은 나 주 여호와의 말이다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Господь. –
Восточный перевод - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tout comme j’ai jugé vos ancêtres dans le désert d’Egypte, je vous jugerai vous aussi, le Seigneur, l’Eternel, le déclare.
Nova Versão Internacional - Assim como julguei os seus antepassados no deserto do Egito, também os julgarei. Palavra do Soberano, o Senhor.
Hoffnung für alle - Wie ich euren Vorfahren in der Wüste Ägyptens das Urteil gesprochen habe, so werde ich es auch über euch verhängen. Darauf könnt ihr euch verlassen!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ta sẽ xét xử các ngươi tại đó như Ta đã xét xử tổ phụ các ngươi trong hoang mạc sau khi đem chúng ra khỏi Ai Cập, Chúa Hằng Hữu Chí Cao phán.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เราพิพากษาบรรพบุรุษของเจ้าในถิ่นกันดารของอียิปต์อย่างไร เราจะพิพากษาเจ้าอย่างนั้น พระยาห์เวห์องค์เจ้าชีวิตประกาศดังนั้น
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เราจะลงโทษพวกเจ้า อย่างที่เราลงโทษบรรพบุรุษของเจ้าในถิ่นทุรกันดารของแผ่นดินอียิปต์” พระผู้เป็นเจ้าผู้ยิ่งใหญ่ประกาศดังนั้น

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Numbers 14:1 - That night all the members of the community raised their voices. They wept out loud.
Numbers 14:2 - The Israelites spoke against Moses and Aaron. The whole community said to them, “We wish we had died in Egypt or even in this desert.
Numbers 14:3 - Why is the Lord bringing us to this land? We’re going to be killed by swords. Our enemies will capture our wives and children. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Numbers 14:4 - They said to one another, “We should choose another leader. We should go back to Egypt.”
Numbers 14:5 - Then Moses and Aaron fell with their faces to the ground. They did it in front of the whole community of Israel gathered there.
Numbers 14:6 - Joshua, the son of Nun, tore his clothes. So did Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. Joshua and Caleb were two of the men who had checked out the land.
Numbers 14:7 - They spoke to the whole community of Israel. They said, “We passed through the land and checked it out. It’s very good.
Numbers 14:8 - If the Lord is pleased with us, he’ll lead us into that land. It’s a land that has plenty of milk and honey. He’ll give it to us.
Numbers 14:9 - But don’t refuse to obey him. And don’t be afraid of the people of the land. We will swallow them up. The Lord is with us. So nothing can save them. Don’t be afraid of them.”
Numbers 14:10 - But all the people talked about killing Joshua and Caleb by throwing stones at them. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting. All the Israelites saw it.
Numbers 14:11 - The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people not respect me? How long will they refuse to believe in me? They refuse even though I have done many signs among them.
Numbers 14:12 - So I will strike them down with a plague. I will destroy them. But I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than they are.”
Numbers 14:13 - Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it. You used your power to bring these people up from among them.
Numbers 14:14 - And the Egyptians will tell the people who live in Canaan about it. Lord, they have already heard a lot about you. They’ve heard that you are with these people. They’ve heard that you have been seen face to face. They’ve been told that your cloud stays over them. They’ve heard that you go in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day. They’ve been told that you go in front of them in a pillar of fire at night.
Numbers 14:15 - Suppose you put all these people to death and leave none alive. Then the nations who have heard these things about you will talk. They’ll say,
Numbers 14:16 - ‘The Lord promised to give these people the land of Canaan. But he wasn’t able to bring them into it. So he killed them in the desert.’
Numbers 14:17 - “Now, Lord, show your strength. You have said,
Numbers 14:18 - ‘I am the Lord. I am slow to get angry. I am full of love. I forgive those who sin. I forgive those who refuse to obey. But I do not let guilty people go without punishing them. I cause the sin of the parents to affect their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.’
Numbers 14:19 - Lord, your love is great. So forgive the sin of these people. Forgive them just as you have done from the time they left Egypt until now.”
Numbers 14:20 - The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them, just as you asked.
Numbers 14:21 - You can be sure that I live. You can be just as sure that my glory fills the whole earth.
Numbers 14:22 - And here is what you can be just as sure of. Not one of these people will see the land I promised to give them. They have seen my glory. They have seen the signs I did in Egypt. And they have seen what I did in the desert. But they did not obey me. And they have tested me ten times.
Numbers 14:23 - So not even one of them will ever see the land I promised to give to their people of long ago. The person who has not respected me will never see it.
Numbers 14:24 - But my servant Caleb has a different spirit. He follows me with his whole heart. So I will bring him into the land he went to. And his children after him will receive land there.
Numbers 14:25 - The Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys. So turn back tomorrow. Start out toward the desert. Go along the way that leads to the Red Sea.”
Numbers 14:26 - The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers 14:27 - “How long will this evil community speak against me? I have heard these Israelites talk about how unhappy they are.
Numbers 14:28 - So tell them, ‘Here is what I am announcing. I am the Lord. You can be sure that I live. And here is what you can be just as sure of. I will do to you the very thing that I heard you say.
Numbers 14:29 - You will die in this desert. Every one of you 20 years old or more will die. Every one of you who was counted in the list of the people will die. Every one of you who has spoken out against me will be wiped out.
Numbers 14:30 - I lifted up my hand and promised to make this land your home. But now not all of you will enter the land. Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, will enter it. So will Joshua, the son of Nun. They are the only ones who will enter the land.
Numbers 14:31 - You have said that your enemies would capture your children. But I will bring your children in to enjoy the land you have turned your backs on.
Numbers 14:32 - As for you, you will die in the desert.
Numbers 14:33 - Your children will be shepherds here for 40 years. They will suffer because you were not faithful. They will suffer until the last of your bodies lies here in the desert.
Numbers 14:34 - For 40 years you will suffer for your sins. That is one year for each of the 40 days you checked out the land. You will know what it is like to have me against you.’
Numbers 14:35 - I, the Lord, have spoken. I will surely do these things to this entire evil community of Israel. They have joined together against me. They will meet their end in this desert. They will die here.”
Numbers 14:36 - So the Lord struck down the men Moses had sent to check out the land. They had returned and had spread a bad report about the land. And that had made the whole community speak out against Moses.
Numbers 14:37 - Those men were to blame for spreading the bad report. So the Lord struck them down. They died of a plague.
Numbers 14:38 - Only two of the men who went to check out the land remained alive. One of them was Joshua, the son of Nun. The other was Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers 14:39 - Moses reported to all the Israelites what the Lord had said. And they became very sad.
Numbers 14:40 - Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country. “We have sinned,” they said. “Now we are ready to go up to the land the Lord promised to give us.”
Numbers 14:41 - But Moses said, “Why aren’t you obeying the Lord’s command? You won’t succeed.
Numbers 14:42 - So don’t go up. The Lord isn’t with you. Your enemies will win the battle over you.
Numbers 14:43 - The Amalekites and the Canaanites will meet you on the field of battle. You have turned away from the Lord. So he won’t be with you. And you will be killed by swords.”
Numbers 14:44 - But they wouldn’t listen. They still went up toward the highest point in the hill country. They went up even though Moses didn’t move from the camp. They went even though the ark of the Lord’s covenant didn’t move from the camp.
Numbers 14:45 - Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down. They attacked the Israelites. They won the battle over them. They chased the Israelites all the way to Hormah.
Exodus 32:7 - The Lord spoke to Moses. He said, “Go down. Your people you brought up out of Egypt have become very sinful.
Exodus 32:8 - They have quickly turned away from what I commanded them. They have made themselves a metal statue of a god in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down and sacrificed to it. And they have said, ‘Israel, here is your god who brought you up out of Egypt.’
Exodus 32:9 - “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses. “They are stubborn.
Exodus 32:10 - Now leave me alone. I will destroy them because of my great anger. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Exodus 32:11 - But Moses asked the Lord his God to have mercy on the people. “Lord,” he said, “why should you destroy your people in anger? You used your great power and mighty hand to bring them out of Egypt.
Exodus 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out to hurt them. He wanted to kill them in the mountains. He wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn away from your great anger. Please take pity on your people. Don’t destroy them!
Exodus 32:13 - Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel. You made a promise to them in your own name. You said, ‘I will make your children after you as many as the stars in the sky. I will give them all this land I promised them. It will belong to them forever.’ ”
Exodus 32:14 - Then the Lord took pity on his people. He didn’t destroy them as he had said he would.
Exodus 32:15 - Moses turned and went down the mountain. He had the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. Words were written on both sides of the tablets, front and back.
Exodus 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God. The words had been written by God. They had been carved on the tablets.
Exodus 32:17 - Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. So he said to Moses, “It sounds like war in the camp.”
Exodus 32:18 - Moses replied, “It’s not the sound of winning. It’s not the sound of losing. It’s the sound of singing that I hear.”
Exodus 32:19 - As Moses approached the camp, he saw the calf. He also saw the people dancing. So he was very angry. He threw the tablets out of his hands. They broke into pieces at the foot of the mountain.
Exodus 32:20 - He took the calf the people had made. He burned it in the fire. Then he ground it into powder. He scattered it on the water. And he made the Israelites drink it.
Exodus 32:21 - He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you? How did they make you lead them into such terrible sin?”
Exodus 32:22 - “Please don’t be angry,” Aaron answered. “You know how these people like to do what is evil.
Exodus 32:23 - They said to me, ‘Make us a god that will lead us. This fellow Moses brought us up out of Egypt. But we don’t know what has happened to him.’
Exodus 32:24 - So I told them, ‘Anyone who has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ They gave me the gold. I threw it into the fire. And out came this calf!”
Exodus 32:25 - Moses saw that the people were running wild. Aaron had let them get out of control. The people had become a joke to their enemies.
Exodus 32:26 - Moses stood at the entrance to the camp. He said, “Anyone on the Lord’s side, come to me.” All the Levites joined him.
Exodus 32:27 - Then he spoke to them. He said, “The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Each man must put on his sword. Then he must go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other. Each man must kill his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ”
Exodus 32:28 - The Levites did as Moses commanded. About 3,000 of the people died that day.
Exodus 32:29 - Then Moses said to the Levites, “You have been set apart for the Lord today. You fought against your own sons and brothers. And he has blessed you this day.”
Exodus 32:30 - The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But now I will go up to the Lord. Maybe if I pray to him, he will forgive your sin.”
Exodus 32:31 - So Moses went back to the Lord. He said, “These people have committed a terrible sin. They have made a god out of gold for themselves.
Exodus 32:32 - Now please forgive their sin. But if you won’t, then erase my name out of the book you have written.”
Exodus 32:33 - The Lord replied to Moses. The Lord said, “I will erase out of my book only the names of those who have sinned against me.
Exodus 32:34 - Now go. Lead the people to the place I spoke about. My angel will go ahead of you. But when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
Exodus 32:35 - The Lord struck the people with a plague. That’s because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
Numbers 16:1 - Korah was the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath. Kohath was the son of Levi. Korah and certain men from the tribe of Reuben turned against Moses. The men from Reuben were Dathan, Abiram and On. Dathan and Abiram were the sons of Eliab. On was the son of Peleth.
Numbers 16:2 - All those men rose up against Moses. And 250 men of Israel joined them. All of them were known as leaders in the community. They had been appointed as members of the ruling body.
Numbers 16:3 - They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron. They said to Moses and Aaron, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy. Every one in it is holy. And the Lord is with them. So why do you put yourselves above the Lord’s people?”
Numbers 16:4 - When Moses heard what they said, he fell with his face to the ground.
Numbers 16:5 - Then he spoke to Korah and all his followers. He said, “In the morning the Lord will show who belongs to him. He will show who is holy. He’ll bring that person near him. He’ll bring the man he chooses near him.
Numbers 16:6 - Korah, here’s what you and all your followers must do. Get some shallow cups for burning incense.
Numbers 16:7 - Tomorrow put burning coals and incense in them. Offer it to the Lord. The man the Lord chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!”
Numbers 16:8 - Moses also said to Korah, “Listen, you Levites!
Numbers 16:9 - The God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the community of Israel. He has brought you near him to work at the Lord’s holy tent. He has given you to the people so that you can serve them. Isn’t all that enough for you?
Numbers 16:10 - He has already brought you and all the other Levites near him. But now you want to be priests too.
Numbers 16:11 - You and all your followers have joined together against the Lord. Why are you telling Aaron you aren’t happy with him?”
Numbers 16:12 - Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But they said, “We won’t come!
Numbers 16:13 - You have brought us up out of a land that has plenty of milk and honey. You have brought us here to kill us in this desert. Isn’t that enough? Now do you also want to act as if you were ruling over us?
Numbers 16:14 - Besides, you haven’t brought us into a land that has plenty of milk and honey. You haven’t given us fields and vineyards of our own. Do you want to treat these men like slaves? No! We won’t come!”
Numbers 16:15 - Then Moses became very angry. He said to the Lord, “Don’t accept their offering. I haven’t taken even a donkey from them. In fact, I haven’t done anything wrong to any of them.”
Numbers 16:16 - Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers must stand in front of the Lord tomorrow. You must appear there along with Aaron.
Numbers 16:17 - Each man must get his shallow cup. He must put incense in it. There will be a total of 250 incense cups. Each man must bring his cup to the Lord. You and Aaron must also bring your cups.”
Numbers 16:18 - So each of them got his cup. He put burning coals and incense in it. All the men came with Moses and Aaron. They stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Numbers 16:19 - Korah gathered all his followers together at the entrance to the tent. They opposed Moses and Aaron. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.
Numbers 16:20 - The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers 16:21 - “Separate yourselves from these people. Then I can put an end to all of them at once.”
Numbers 16:22 - But Moses and Aaron fell with their faces to the ground. They cried out, “God, you are the God who gives life and breath to all living things. Will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”
Numbers 16:23 - Then the Lord spoke to Moses. He said,
Numbers 16:24 - “Tell the community, ‘Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.’ ”
Numbers 16:25 - Moses got up. He went to Dathan and Abiram. The elders of Israel followed him.
Numbers 16:26 - Moses warned the community. He said, “Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don’t touch anything that belongs to them. If you do, the Lord will sweep you away because of all their sins.”
Numbers 16:27 - So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had already come out. They were standing at the entrances to their tents. Their wives, children and little ones were standing there with them.
Numbers 16:28 - Then Moses said, “What is about to happen wasn’t my idea. The Lord has sent me to do everything I’m doing. Here is how you will know I’m telling you the truth.
Numbers 16:29 - These men won’t die a natural death. Something will happen to them that doesn’t usually happen to people. If what I’m telling you doesn’t happen, then you will know that the Lord hasn’t sent me.
Numbers 16:30 - But the Lord will make something totally new happen. The ground will open its mouth and swallow them up. It will swallow up everything that belongs to them. They will be buried alive. When that happens, you will know that these men have disrespected the Lord.”
Numbers 16:31 - As soon as Moses finished saying all these words, what he had said came true. The ground under them broke open.
Numbers 16:32 - It opened its mouth. It swallowed up those men. In fact, it swallowed up everyone who lived in their houses. It swallowed all Korah’s men. And it swallowed up everything they owned.
Numbers 16:33 - They went down into the grave alive. Everything they owned went down with them. The ground closed over them and they died. And so they disappeared from the community.
Numbers 16:34 - All the Israelites around them heard their cries. They ran away from them. They shouted, “The ground is going to swallow us up too!”
Numbers 16:35 - Then the Lord sent down fire. It burned up the 250 men offering the incense.
Numbers 16:36 - The Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 16:37 - “Speak to Eleazar the priest. He is the son of Aaron. Remind him that the shallow cups are holy. He must take them out of the ashes. He must scatter the burning coals away from there.
Numbers 16:38 - The men who sinned used those cups. And it cost them their lives. Hammer the cups into bronze sheets that will cover the altar. The cups were offered to the Lord. They have become holy. Let them serve as a warning to the Israelites.”
Numbers 16:39 - So the priest Eleazar collected the bronze incense cups. They had been brought by the men who had been burned to death. He had them hammered out to cover the altar.
Numbers 16:40 - He did just as the Lord had directed Moses to tell him to do. The covering would be a reminder to the Israelites. It would remind them that no one except a son of Aaron should come and burn incense to the Lord. If people other than priests did that, they would become like Korah and his followers.
Numbers 16:41 - The next day the whole community of Israel told Moses and Aaron they weren’t happy with them. “You have killed the Lord’s people,” they said.
Numbers 16:42 - The community gathered together to oppose Moses and Aaron. The people walked toward the tent of meeting. Suddenly the cloud covered it. The glory of the Lord appeared.
Numbers 16:43 - Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 16:44 - The Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 16:45 - “Get away from these people. Then I can put an end to all of them at once.” And Moses and Aaron fell with their faces to the ground.
Numbers 16:46 - Moses said to Aaron, “Take your incense cup. Put incense in it. And put burning coals from the altar in it. Then hurry to the people and pay for their sin. The Lord has begun to show his anger. The plague has started.”
Numbers 16:47 - So Aaron did as Moses said. He ran in among the people. The plague had already started among them. But Aaron offered the incense and paid for their sin.
Numbers 16:48 - He stood between those alive and those dead. And the plague stopped.
Numbers 16:49 - But 14,700 people died from the plague. That doesn’t include those who had died because of what Korah did.
Numbers 16:50 - Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting. The plague had stopped.
Numbers 25:1 - Israel was staying in Shittim. The men of Israel began to commit sexual sins with the women of Moab.
Numbers 25:2 - The women invited the men to feasts and sacrifices to honor their gods. The people ate the sacrifices and bowed down in front of the statues of those gods.
Numbers 25:3 - So Israel joined in worshiping the god named Baal that was worshiped at Peor. The Lord became very angry with Israel.
Numbers 25:4 - The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people. Kill them. Put their dead bodies out in the open. I want to see you do it in the middle of the day. Then I will not be angry with Israel.”
Numbers 25:5 - So Moses spoke to Israel’s judges. He said, “Some of your people have joined in worshiping the god named Baal that is worshiped at Peor. Each of you must kill the people in your tribe who have done that.”
Numbers 25:6 - Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman. He did it right in front of the eyes of Moses and the whole community of Israel. They were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Numbers 25:7 - Phinehas was a priest. He was the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron. When Phinehas saw what had happened, he left the people. He took a spear in his hand.
Numbers 25:8 - He followed the man into the tent. Phinehas stuck the spear through the man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the Lord stopped the plague against the Israelites.
Numbers 25:9 - But the plague had already killed 24,000 of them.
Numbers 25:10 - The Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 25:11 - “Phinehas is a priest. He is the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron. Phinehas has turned my anger away from the Israelites. I am committed to making sure I am honored among them. And he is as committed as I am. So even though I was angry with them, I did not put an end to them.
Numbers 25:12 - So tell Phinehas I am making my covenant with him. It is my promise to give him peace.
Numbers 25:13 - He and his sons after him will have a covenant to be priests forever. That is because he was committed to making sure that I, his God, was honored. In that way he paid for the sin of the Israelites.”
Numbers 25:14 - The name of the Israelite man who was killed was Zimri. He was the son of Salu. Zimri was killed along with the Midianite woman. Salu was a family leader in the tribe of Simeon.
Numbers 25:15 - The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Kozbi. She was the daughter of Zur. He was the chief of a Midianite family.
Numbers 25:16 - The Lord spoke to Moses. He said,
Numbers 25:17 - “Treat the Midianites just as you would treat enemies. Kill them.
Numbers 25:18 - After all, they treated you like enemies. They tricked you into worshiping the god named Baal that is worshiped at Peor. They also tricked you because of what Kozbi did. She was the woman killed when the plague came that was connected with Peor. Kozbi was the daughter of a Midianite leader.”
Psalm 106:15 - So he gave them what they asked for. But he also sent a sickness that killed many of them.
Psalm 106:16 - In their camp some of them became jealous of Moses and Aaron. Aaron had been set apart to serve the Lord.
Psalm 106:17 - The ground opened up and swallowed Dathan. It buried Abiram and his followers.
Psalm 106:18 - Fire blazed among all of them. Flames destroyed those evil people.
Psalm 106:19 - At Mount Horeb they made a metal statue of a bull calf. They worshiped that statue of a god.
Psalm 106:20 - They traded their glorious God for a statue of a bull that eats grass.
Psalm 106:21 - They forgot the God who saved them. They forgot the God who had done great things in Egypt.
Psalm 106:22 - They forgot the miracles he did in the land of Ham. They forgot the wonderful things he did by the Red Sea.
Psalm 106:23 - So he said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood up for them. He kept God’s anger from destroying them.
Psalm 106:24 - Later on, they refused to enter the pleasant land of Canaan. They didn’t believe God’s promise.
Psalm 106:25 - In their tents they told the Lord how unhappy they were. They didn’t obey him.
Psalm 106:26 - So he lifted up his hand and promised that he would make them die in the desert.
Psalm 106:27 - He promised he would scatter their children’s children among the nations. He would make them die in other lands.
Psalm 106:28 - They joined in worshiping the Baal that was worshiped at Peor. They ate food that had been offered to gods that aren’t even alive.
Psalm 106:29 - Their evil ways made the Lord angry. So a plague broke out among them.
Psalm 106:30 - But Phinehas stood up and took action. Then the plague stopped.
Psalm 106:31 - What Phinehas did made him right with the Lord. It will be remembered for all time to come.
Psalm 106:32 - By the waters of Meribah the Lord’s people made him angry. Moses got in trouble because of them.
Psalm 106:33 - They refused to obey the Spirit of God. So Moses spoke without thinking.
Psalm 106:34 - They didn’t destroy the nations in Canaan as the Lord had commanded them.
Psalm 106:35 - Instead, they mixed with those nations and adopted their ways.
Psalm 106:36 - They worshiped statues of their gods. That became a trap for them.
Psalm 106:37 - They sacrificed their sons and daughters as offerings to false gods.
Psalm 106:38 - They killed those who weren’t guilty of doing anything wrong. They killed their own sons and daughters. They sacrificed them as offerings to statues of the gods of Canaan. The land became “unclean” because of the blood of their children.
Psalm 106:39 - The people made themselves impure by what they had done. They weren’t faithful to the Lord.
Psalm 106:40 - So the Lord became angry with his people. He turned away from his own children.
Psalm 106:41 - He handed them over to the nations. Their enemies ruled over them.
Psalm 106:42 - Their enemies treated them badly and kept them under their power.
Psalm 106:43 - Many times the Lord saved them. But they refused to obey him. So he destroyed them because of their sins.
Psalm 106:44 - Yet he heard them when they cried out. He paid special attention to their suffering.
Psalm 106:45 - Because they were his people, he remembered his covenant. Because of his great love, he felt sorry for them.
Psalm 106:46 - He made all those who held them as prisoners have mercy on them.
Psalm 106:47 - Lord our God, save us. Bring us back from among the nations. Then we will give thanks to you, because your name is holy. We will celebrate by praising you.
Psalm 106:48 - Give praise to the Lord, the God of Israel, for ever and ever. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:21 - “ ‘ “But their children refused to obey me. They did not follow my rules. They were not careful to keep my laws. The person who obeys them will live by them. They misused my Sabbath days. So I said I would pour out all my great anger on them in the desert.
Ezekiel 20:13 - “ ‘ “But in the desert the people of Israel refused to obey me. They did not follow my rules. They turned their backs on my laws. The person who obeys them will live by them. They totally misused my Sabbath days. So I said I would pour out my great anger on them. I would destroy them in the desert.
1 Corinthians 10:5 - But God was not pleased with most of them. Their bodies were scattered in the desert.
1 Corinthians 10:6 - Now those things happened as examples for us. They are supposed to keep us from wanting evil things. The people of Israel wanted these evil things.
1 Corinthians 10:7 - So don’t worship statues of gods, as some of them did. It is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance wildly in front of their god.” ( Exodus 32:6 )
1 Corinthians 10:8 - We should not commit sexual sins, as some of them did. In one day 23,000 of them died.
1 Corinthians 10:9 - We should not test the Messiah, as some of them did. They were killed by snakes.
1 Corinthians 10:10 - Don’t speak against God. That’s what some of the people of Israel did. And they were killed by the destroying angel.
Numbers 11:1 - The people weren’t happy about the hard times they were having. The Lord heard what they were saying. It made him very angry. Then the Lord sent fire on them. It blazed out among the people. It burned up some of the outer edges of the camp.
Numbers 11:2 - The people cried out to Moses. Then he prayed to the Lord. And the fire died down.
Numbers 11:3 - So that place was named Taberah. That’s because fire from the Lord had blazed out among them there.
Numbers 11:4 - Some people with them began to wish for other food. Again the Israelites began to cry out. They said, “We wish we had meat to eat.
Numbers 11:5 - We remember the fish we ate in Egypt. It didn’t cost us anything. We also remember the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Numbers 11:6 - But now we’ve lost all interest in eating. We never see anything but this manna!”
Numbers 11:7 - The manna was like coriander seeds. It looked like sap from a tree.
Numbers 11:8 - The people went around gathering it. Then they ground it up in a small mill they held in their hands. Or they crushed it in a stone bowl. They cooked it in a pot. Or they made loaves out of it. It tasted like something made with olive oil.
Numbers 11:9 - When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
Numbers 11:10 - Moses heard people from every family crying at the entrances to their tents. The Lord became very angry. So Moses became upset.
Numbers 11:11 - He asked the Lord, “Why have you brought this trouble on me? Why aren’t you pleased with me? Why have you loaded me down with the troubles of all these people?
Numbers 11:12 - Am I like a mother to them? Are they my children? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms? Do I have to carry them the way a nurse carries a baby? Do I have to carry them to the land you promised? You promised the land to their people of long ago.
Numbers 11:13 - Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep crying out to me. They say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Numbers 11:14 - I can’t carry all these people by myself. The load is too heavy for me.
Numbers 11:15 - Is this how you are going to treat me? If you are pleased with me, just put me to death right now. Don’t let me live if I have to see myself destroyed anyway.”
Numbers 11:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “Bring me 70 of Israel’s elders. Bring men that you know are leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting. I want them to stand there with you.
Numbers 11:17 - I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you. And I will put it on them. They will share the responsibility of these people with you. Then you will not have to carry it alone.
Numbers 11:18 - “Tell the people, ‘Set yourselves apart for tomorrow. At that time you will eat meat. The Lord heard you when you cried out. You said, “We wish we had meat to eat. We were better off in Egypt.” Now the Lord will give you meat. And you will eat it.
Numbers 11:19 - You will not eat it for just one or two days. You will not eat it for just five, ten or 20 days.
Numbers 11:20 - Instead, you will eat it for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out of your noses. You will eat it until you hate it. The Lord is among you. But you have turned your back on him. You have cried out while he was listening. You have said, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”
Numbers 11:21 - But Moses said to the Lord, “Here I am among 600,000 men on the march. And you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month’!
Numbers 11:22 - Would they have enough if flocks and herds were killed for them? Would they have enough even if all the fish in the ocean were caught for them?”
Numbers 11:23 - The Lord answered Moses, “Am I not strong enough? Now you will see whether what I say will come true for you.”
Numbers 11:24 - So Moses went out. He told the people what the Lord had said. He gathered 70 of their elders together. He had them stand around the tent of meeting.
Numbers 11:25 - Then the Lord came down in the cloud. He spoke with Moses. He took some of the power of the Spirit that was on Moses. And he put it on the 70 elders. When the Spirit came on them, they prophesied. But they didn’t do it again.
Numbers 11:26 - Two men had remained in the camp. Their names were Eldad and Medad. They were listed among the elders. But they didn’t go out to the tent of meeting. In spite of that, the Spirit came on them too. So they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers 11:27 - A young man ran up to Moses. He said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Numbers 11:28 - Joshua spoke up. He was the son of Nun. Joshua had been Moses’ helper from the time he was young. He said, “Moses! Please stop them!”
Numbers 11:29 - But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets. And I wish that the Lord would put his Spirit on them.”
Numbers 11:30 - Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
Numbers 11:31 - The Lord sent out a wind. It drove quail in from the Red Sea. It scattered them all around the camp. They were about three feet above the ground. They could be seen in every direction as far as a person could walk in a day.
Numbers 11:32 - The people went out all day and gathered quail. They gathered them all night and all the next day. No one gathered less than 60 bushels. Then they spread the quail out all around the camp.
Numbers 11:33 - But while the meat was still in their mouths, the Lord acted. Before the people could swallow it, he became very angry with them. He struck them with a terrible plague.
Numbers 11:34 - So the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah. That’s where the bodies of the people who had wished for other food were buried.
Numbers 11:35 - From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth. And they stayed there.

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New International Reader's Version - Long ago, I judged your people in the desert of Egypt. In the same way, I will judge you,” announces the Lord and King.
新标点和合本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必照样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必照样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
当代译本 - 我从前在埃及的旷野怎样审判你们的祖先，也必怎样审判你们。这是主耶和华说的。
圣经新译本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野审判你们的祖先，也必怎样审判你们。这是主耶和华的宣告。
现代标点和合本 - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
和合本（拼音版） - 我怎样在埃及地的旷野刑罚你们的列祖，也必照样刑罚你们。这是主耶和华说的。
New International Version - As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign Lord.
English Standard Version - As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God.
New Living Translation - I will judge you there just as I did your ancestors in the wilderness after bringing them out of Egypt, says the Sovereign Lord.
The Message - “‘As I faced your parents with judgment in the desert of Egypt, so I’ll face you with judgment. I’ll scrutinize and search every person as you arrive, and I’ll bring you under the bond of the covenant. I’ll cull out the rebels and traitors. I’ll lead them out of their exile, but I won’t bring them back to Israel. “‘Then you’ll realize that I am God.
Christian Standard Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you. This is the declaration of the Lord God.
New American Standard Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God.
New King James Version - Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord God.
Amplified Bible - As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment and contend with you,” says the Lord God.
American Standard Version - Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
King James Version - Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
New English Translation - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign Lord.
World English Bible - Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
新標點和合本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野刑罰你們的列祖，也必照樣刑罰你們。這是主耶和華說的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必照樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必照樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
當代譯本 - 我從前在埃及的曠野怎樣審判你們的祖先，也必怎樣審判你們。這是主耶和華說的。
聖經新譯本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野審判你們的祖先，也必怎樣審判你們。這是主耶和華的宣告。
呂振中譯本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野判罰你們祖先，我也要怎樣判罰你們：這是主永恆主發神諭說的。
現代標點和合本 - 我怎樣在埃及地的曠野刑罰你們的列祖，也必照樣刑罰你們。這是主耶和華說的。
文理和合譯本 - 我鞫爾、如在埃及曠野鞫爾列祖、主耶和華言之矣、
文理委辦譯本 - 與昔在埃及曠野、斥爾祖之非無異、我耶和華、已言之矣。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我斥爾非、如昔在伊及曠野斥爾祖之非、或作我必審鞫爾如昔在伊及曠野審鞫爾祖然此乃主天主所言、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Así como juzgué a sus antepasados en el desierto de Egipto, también los juzgaré a ustedes. Yo, el Señor omnipotente, lo afirmo.
현대인의 성경 - 내가 너희 조상들을 이집트 땅에서 이끌어낸 후에 광야에서 그들을 심문한 것처럼 너희를 심문하겠다. 이것은 나 주 여호와의 말이다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Господь. –
Восточный перевод - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Подобно тому, как Я судился с вашими предками в пустыне земли Египта, так Я буду судиться и с вами, – возвещает Владыка Вечный. –
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tout comme j’ai jugé vos ancêtres dans le désert d’Egypte, je vous jugerai vous aussi, le Seigneur, l’Eternel, le déclare.
Nova Versão Internacional - Assim como julguei os seus antepassados no deserto do Egito, também os julgarei. Palavra do Soberano, o Senhor.
Hoffnung für alle - Wie ich euren Vorfahren in der Wüste Ägyptens das Urteil gesprochen habe, so werde ich es auch über euch verhängen. Darauf könnt ihr euch verlassen!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Ta sẽ xét xử các ngươi tại đó như Ta đã xét xử tổ phụ các ngươi trong hoang mạc sau khi đem chúng ra khỏi Ai Cập, Chúa Hằng Hữu Chí Cao phán.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เราพิพากษาบรรพบุรุษของเจ้าในถิ่นกันดารของอียิปต์อย่างไร เราจะพิพากษาเจ้าอย่างนั้น พระยาห์เวห์องค์เจ้าชีวิตประกาศดังนั้น
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เราจะลงโทษพวกเจ้า อย่างที่เราลงโทษบรรพบุรุษของเจ้าในถิ่นทุรกันดารของแผ่นดินอียิปต์” พระผู้เป็นเจ้าผู้ยิ่งใหญ่ประกาศดังนั้น

Numbers 14:1 - That night all the members of the community raised their voices. They wept out loud.
Numbers 14:2 - The Israelites spoke against Moses and Aaron. The whole community said to them, “We wish we had died in Egypt or even in this desert.
Numbers 14:3 - Why is the Lord bringing us to this land? We’re going to be killed by swords. Our enemies will capture our wives and children. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Numbers 14:4 - They said to one another, “We should choose another leader. We should go back to Egypt.”
Numbers 14:5 - Then Moses and Aaron fell with their faces to the ground. They did it in front of the whole community of Israel gathered there.
Numbers 14:6 - Joshua, the son of Nun, tore his clothes. So did Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. Joshua and Caleb were two of the men who had checked out the land.
Numbers 14:7 - They spoke to the whole community of Israel. They said, “We passed through the land and checked it out. It’s very good.
Numbers 14:8 - If the Lord is pleased with us, he’ll lead us into that land. It’s a land that has plenty of milk and honey. He’ll give it to us.
Numbers 14:9 - But don’t refuse to obey him. And don’t be afraid of the people of the land. We will swallow them up. The Lord is with us. So nothing can save them. Don’t be afraid of them.”
Numbers 14:10 - But all the people talked about killing Joshua and Caleb by throwing stones at them. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting. All the Israelites saw it.
Numbers 14:11 - The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people not respect me? How long will they refuse to believe in me? They refuse even though I have done many signs among them.
Numbers 14:12 - So I will strike them down with a plague. I will destroy them. But I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than they are.”
Numbers 14:13 - Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it. You used your power to bring these people up from among them.
Numbers 14:14 - And the Egyptians will tell the people who live in Canaan about it. Lord, they have already heard a lot about you. They’ve heard that you are with these people. They’ve heard that you have been seen face to face. They’ve been told that your cloud stays over them. They’ve heard that you go in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day. They’ve been told that you go in front of them in a pillar of fire at night.
Numbers 14:15 - Suppose you put all these people to death and leave none alive. Then the nations who have heard these things about you will talk. They’ll say,
Numbers 14:16 - ‘The Lord promised to give these people the land of Canaan. But he wasn’t able to bring them into it. So he killed them in the desert.’
Numbers 14:17 - “Now, Lord, show your strength. You have said,
Numbers 14:18 - ‘I am the Lord. I am slow to get angry. I am full of love. I forgive those who sin. I forgive those who refuse to obey. But I do not let guilty people go without punishing them. I cause the sin of the parents to affect their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.’
Numbers 14:19 - Lord, your love is great. So forgive the sin of these people. Forgive them just as you have done from the time they left Egypt until now.”
Numbers 14:20 - The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them, just as you asked.
Numbers 14:21 - You can be sure that I live. You can be just as sure that my glory fills the whole earth.
Numbers 14:22 - And here is what you can be just as sure of. Not one of these people will see the land I promised to give them. They have seen my glory. They have seen the signs I did in Egypt. And they have seen what I did in the desert. But they did not obey me. And they have tested me ten times.
Numbers 14:23 - So not even one of them will ever see the land I promised to give to their people of long ago. The person who has not respected me will never see it.
Numbers 14:24 - But my servant Caleb has a different spirit. He follows me with his whole heart. So I will bring him into the land he went to. And his children after him will receive land there.
Numbers 14:25 - The Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys. So turn back tomorrow. Start out toward the desert. Go along the way that leads to the Red Sea.”
Numbers 14:26 - The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers 14:27 - “How long will this evil community speak against me? I have heard these Israelites talk about how unhappy they are.
Numbers 14:28 - So tell them, ‘Here is what I am announcing. I am the Lord. You can be sure that I live. And here is what you can be just as sure of. I will do to you the very thing that I heard you say.
Numbers 14:29 - You will die in this desert. Every one of you 20 years old or more will die. Every one of you who was counted in the list of the people will die. Every one of you who has spoken out against me will be wiped out.
Numbers 14:30 - I lifted up my hand and promised to make this land your home. But now not all of you will enter the land. Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, will enter it. So will Joshua, the son of Nun. They are the only ones who will enter the land.
Numbers 14:31 - You have said that your enemies would capture your children. But I will bring your children in to enjoy the land you have turned your backs on.
Numbers 14:32 - As for you, you will die in the desert.
Numbers 14:33 - Your children will be shepherds here for 40 years. They will suffer because you were not faithful. They will suffer until the last of your bodies lies here in the desert.
Numbers 14:34 - For 40 years you will suffer for your sins. That is one year for each of the 40 days you checked out the land. You will know what it is like to have me against you.’
Numbers 14:35 - I, the Lord, have spoken. I will surely do these things to this entire evil community of Israel. They have joined together against me. They will meet their end in this desert. They will die here.”
Numbers 14:36 - So the Lord struck down the men Moses had sent to check out the land. They had returned and had spread a bad report about the land. And that had made the whole community speak out against Moses.
Numbers 14:37 - Those men were to blame for spreading the bad report. So the Lord struck them down. They died of a plague.
Numbers 14:38 - Only two of the men who went to check out the land remained alive. One of them was Joshua, the son of Nun. The other was Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers 14:39 - Moses reported to all the Israelites what the Lord had said. And they became very sad.
Numbers 14:40 - Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country. “We have sinned,” they said. “Now we are ready to go up to the land the Lord promised to give us.”
Numbers 14:41 - But Moses said, “Why aren’t you obeying the Lord’s command? You won’t succeed.
Numbers 14:42 - So don’t go up. The Lord isn’t with you. Your enemies will win the battle over you.
Numbers 14:43 - The Amalekites and the Canaanites will meet you on the field of battle. You have turned away from the Lord. So he won’t be with you. And you will be killed by swords.”
Numbers 14:44 - But they wouldn’t listen. They still went up toward the highest point in the hill country. They went up even though Moses didn’t move from the camp. They went even though the ark of the Lord’s covenant didn’t move from the camp.
Numbers 14:45 - Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down. They attacked the Israelites. They won the battle over them. They chased the Israelites all the way to Hormah.
Exodus 32:7 - The Lord spoke to Moses. He said, “Go down. Your people you brought up out of Egypt have become very sinful.
Exodus 32:8 - They have quickly turned away from what I commanded them. They have made themselves a metal statue of a god in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down and sacrificed to it. And they have said, ‘Israel, here is your god who brought you up out of Egypt.’
Exodus 32:9 - “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses. “They are stubborn.
Exodus 32:10 - Now leave me alone. I will destroy them because of my great anger. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Exodus 32:11 - But Moses asked the Lord his God to have mercy on the people. “Lord,” he said, “why should you destroy your people in anger? You used your great power and mighty hand to bring them out of Egypt.
Exodus 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out to hurt them. He wanted to kill them in the mountains. He wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn away from your great anger. Please take pity on your people. Don’t destroy them!
Exodus 32:13 - Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel. You made a promise to them in your own name. You said, ‘I will make your children after you as many as the stars in the sky. I will give them all this land I promised them. It will belong to them forever.’ ”
Exodus 32:14 - Then the Lord took pity on his people. He didn’t destroy them as he had said he would.
Exodus 32:15 - Moses turned and went down the mountain. He had the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. Words were written on both sides of the tablets, front and back.
Exodus 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God. The words had been written by God. They had been carved on the tablets.
Exodus 32:17 - Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. So he said to Moses, “It sounds like war in the camp.”
Exodus 32:18 - Moses replied, “It’s not the sound of winning. It’s not the sound of losing. It’s the sound of singing that I hear.”
Exodus 32:19 - As Moses approached the camp, he saw the calf. He also saw the people dancing. So he was very angry. He threw the tablets out of his hands. They broke into pieces at the foot of the mountain.
Exodus 32:20 - He took the calf the people had made. He burned it in the fire. Then he ground it into powder. He scattered it on the water. And he made the Israelites drink it.
Exodus 32:21 - He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you? How did they make you lead them into such terrible sin?”
Exodus 32:22 - “Please don’t be angry,” Aaron answered. “You know how these people like to do what is evil.
Exodus 32:23 - They said to me, ‘Make us a god that will lead us. This fellow Moses brought us up out of Egypt. But we don’t know what has happened to him.’
Exodus 32:24 - So I told them, ‘Anyone who has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ They gave me the gold. I threw it into the fire. And out came this calf!”
Exodus 32:25 - Moses saw that the people were running wild. Aaron had let them get out of control. The people had become a joke to their enemies.
Exodus 32:26 - Moses stood at the entrance to the camp. He said, “Anyone on the Lord’s side, come to me.” All the Levites joined him.
Exodus 32:27 - Then he spoke to them. He said, “The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Each man must put on his sword. Then he must go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other. Each man must kill his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ”
Exodus 32:28 - The Levites did as Moses commanded. About 3,000 of the people died that day.
Exodus 32:29 - Then Moses said to the Levites, “You have been set apart for the Lord today. You fought against your own sons and brothers. And he has blessed you this day.”
Exodus 32:30 - The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But now I will go up to the Lord. Maybe if I pray to him, he will forgive your sin.”
Exodus 32:31 - So Moses went back to the Lord. He said, “These people have committed a terrible sin. They have made a god out of gold for themselves.
Exodus 32:32 - Now please forgive their sin. But if you won’t, then erase my name out of the book you have written.”
Exodus 32:33 - The Lord replied to Moses. The Lord said, “I will erase out of my book only the names of those who have sinned against me.
Exodus 32:34 - Now go. Lead the people to the place I spoke about. My angel will go ahead of you. But when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
Exodus 32:35 - The Lord struck the people with a plague. That’s because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
Numbers 16:1 - Korah was the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath. Kohath was the son of Levi. Korah and certain men from the tribe of Reuben turned against Moses. The men from Reuben were Dathan, Abiram and On. Dathan and Abiram were the sons of Eliab. On was the son of Peleth.
Numbers 16:2 - All those men rose up against Moses. And 250 men of Israel joined them. All of them were known as leaders in the community. They had been appointed as members of the ruling body.
Numbers 16:3 - They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron. They said to Moses and Aaron, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy. Every one in it is holy. And the Lord is with them. So why do you put yourselves above the Lord’s people?”
Numbers 16:4 - When Moses heard what they said, he fell with his face to the ground.
Numbers 16:5 - Then he spoke to Korah and all his followers. He said, “In the morning the Lord will show who belongs to him. He will show who is holy. He’ll bring that person near him. He’ll bring the man he chooses near him.
Numbers 16:6 - Korah, here’s what you and all your followers must do. Get some shallow cups for burning incense.
Numbers 16:7 - Tomorrow put burning coals and incense in them. Offer it to the Lord. The man the Lord chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!”
Numbers 16:8 - Moses also said to Korah, “Listen, you Levites!
Numbers 16:9 - The God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the community of Israel. He has brought you near him to work at the Lord’s holy tent. He has given you to the people so that you can serve them. Isn’t all that enough for you?
Numbers 16:10 - He has already brought you and all the other Levites near him. But now you want to be priests too.
Numbers 16:11 - You and all your followers have joined together against the Lord. Why are you telling Aaron you aren’t happy with him?”
Numbers 16:12 - Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But they said, “We won’t come!
Numbers 16:13 - You have brought us up out of a land that has plenty of milk and honey. You have brought us here to kill us in this desert. Isn’t that enough? Now do you also want to act as if you were ruling over us?
Numbers 16:14 - Besides, you haven’t brought us into a land that has plenty of milk and honey. You haven’t given us fields and vineyards of our own. Do you want to treat these men like slaves? No! We won’t come!”
Numbers 16:15 - Then Moses became very angry. He said to the Lord, “Don’t accept their offering. I haven’t taken even a donkey from them. In fact, I haven’t done anything wrong to any of them.”
Numbers 16:16 - Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers must stand in front of the Lord tomorrow. You must appear there along with Aaron.
Numbers 16:17 - Each man must get his shallow cup. He must put incense in it. There will be a total of 250 incense cups. Each man must bring his cup to the Lord. You and Aaron must also bring your cups.”
Numbers 16:18 - So each of them got his cup. He put burning coals and incense in it. All the men came with Moses and Aaron. They stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Numbers 16:19 - Korah gathered all his followers together at the entrance to the tent. They opposed Moses and Aaron. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole community.
Numbers 16:20 - The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers 16:21 - “Separate yourselves from these people. Then I can put an end to all of them at once.”
Numbers 16:22 - But Moses and Aaron fell with their faces to the ground. They cried out, “God, you are the God who gives life and breath to all living things. Will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”
Numbers 16:23 - Then the Lord spoke to Moses. He said,
Numbers 16:24 - “Tell the community, ‘Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.’ ”
Numbers 16:25 - Moses got up. He went to Dathan and Abiram. The elders of Israel followed him.
Numbers 16:26 - Moses warned the community. He said, “Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don’t touch anything that belongs to them. If you do, the Lord will sweep you away because of all their sins.”
Numbers 16:27 - So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had already come out. They were standing at the entrances to their tents. Their wives, children and little ones were standing there with them.
Numbers 16:28 - Then Moses said, “What is about to happen wasn’t my idea. The Lord has sent me to do everything I’m doing. Here is how you will know I’m telling you the truth.
Numbers 16:29 - These men won’t die a natural death. Something will happen to them that doesn’t usually happen to people. If what I’m telling you doesn’t happen, then you will know that the Lord hasn’t sent me.
Numbers 16:30 - But the Lord will make something totally new happen. The ground will open its mouth and swallow them up. It will swallow up everything that belongs to them. They will be buried alive. When that happens, you will know that these men have disrespected the Lord.”
Numbers 16:31 - As soon as Moses finished saying all these words, what he had said came true. The ground under them broke open.
Numbers 16:32 - It opened its mouth. It swallowed up those men. In fact, it swallowed up everyone who lived in their houses. It swallowed all Korah’s men. And it swallowed up everything they owned.
Numbers 16:33 - They went down into the grave alive. Everything they owned went down with them. The ground closed over them and they died. And so they disappeared from the community.
Numbers 16:34 - All the Israelites around them heard their cries. They ran away from them. They shouted, “The ground is going to swallow us up too!”
Numbers 16:35 - Then the Lord sent down fire. It burned up the 250 men offering the incense.
Numbers 16:36 - The Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 16:37 - “Speak to Eleazar the priest. He is the son of Aaron. Remind him that the shallow cups are holy. He must take them out of the ashes. He must scatter the burning coals away from there.
Numbers 16:38 - The men who sinned used those cups. And it cost them their lives. Hammer the cups into bronze sheets that will cover the altar. The cups were offered to the Lord. They have become holy. Let them serve as a warning to the Israelites.”
Numbers 16:39 - So the priest Eleazar collected the bronze incense cups. They had been brought by the men who had been burned to death. He had them hammered out to cover the altar.
Numbers 16:40 - He did just as the Lord had directed Moses to tell him to do. The covering would be a reminder to the Israelites. It would remind them that no one except a son of Aaron should come and burn incense to the Lord. If people other than priests did that, they would become like Korah and his followers.
Numbers 16:41 - The next day the whole community of Israel told Moses and Aaron they weren’t happy with them. “You have killed the Lord’s people,” they said.
Numbers 16:42 - The community gathered together to oppose Moses and Aaron. The people walked toward the tent of meeting. Suddenly the cloud covered it. The glory of the Lord appeared.
Numbers 16:43 - Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 16:44 - The Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 16:45 - “Get away from these people. Then I can put an end to all of them at once.” And Moses and Aaron fell with their faces to the ground.
Numbers 16:46 - Moses said to Aaron, “Take your incense cup. Put incense in it. And put burning coals from the altar in it. Then hurry to the people and pay for their sin. The Lord has begun to show his anger. The plague has started.”
Numbers 16:47 - So Aaron did as Moses said. He ran in among the people. The plague had already started among them. But Aaron offered the incense and paid for their sin.
Numbers 16:48 - He stood between those alive and those dead. And the plague stopped.
Numbers 16:49 - But 14,700 people died from the plague. That doesn’t include those who had died because of what Korah did.
Numbers 16:50 - Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting. The plague had stopped.
Numbers 25:1 - Israel was staying in Shittim. The men of Israel began to commit sexual sins with the women of Moab.
Numbers 25:2 - The women invited the men to feasts and sacrifices to honor their gods. The people ate the sacrifices and bowed down in front of the statues of those gods.
Numbers 25:3 - So Israel joined in worshiping the god named Baal that was worshiped at Peor. The Lord became very angry with Israel.
Numbers 25:4 - The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people. Kill them. Put their dead bodies out in the open. I want to see you do it in the middle of the day. Then I will not be angry with Israel.”
Numbers 25:5 - So Moses spoke to Israel’s judges. He said, “Some of your people have joined in worshiping the god named Baal that is worshiped at Peor. Each of you must kill the people in your tribe who have done that.”
Numbers 25:6 - Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman. He did it right in front of the eyes of Moses and the whole community of Israel. They were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Numbers 25:7 - Phinehas was a priest. He was the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron. When Phinehas saw what had happened, he left the people. He took a spear in his hand.
Numbers 25:8 - He followed the man into the tent. Phinehas stuck the spear through the man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the Lord stopped the plague against the Israelites.
Numbers 25:9 - But the plague had already killed 24,000 of them.
Numbers 25:10 - The Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 25:11 - “Phinehas is a priest. He is the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron. Phinehas has turned my anger away from the Israelites. I am committed to making sure I am honored among them. And he is as committed as I am. So even though I was angry with them, I did not put an end to them.
Numbers 25:12 - So tell Phinehas I am making my covenant with him. It is my promise to give him peace.
Numbers 25:13 - He and his sons after him will have a covenant to be priests forever. That is because he was committed to making sure that I, his God, was honored. In that way he paid for the sin of the Israelites.”
Numbers 25:14 - The name of the Israelite man who was killed was Zimri. He was the son of Salu. Zimri was killed along with the Midianite woman. Salu was a family leader in the tribe of Simeon.
Numbers 25:15 - The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Kozbi. She was the daughter of Zur. He was the chief of a Midianite family.
Numbers 25:16 - The Lord spoke to Moses. He said,
Numbers 25:17 - “Treat the Midianites just as you would treat enemies. Kill them.
Numbers 25:18 - After all, they treated you like enemies. They tricked you into worshiping the god named Baal that is worshiped at Peor. They also tricked you because of what Kozbi did. She was the woman killed when the plague came that was connected with Peor. Kozbi was the daughter of a Midianite leader.”
Psalm 106:15 - So he gave them what they asked for. But he also sent a sickness that killed many of them.
Psalm 106:16 - In their camp some of them became jealous of Moses and Aaron. Aaron had been set apart to serve the Lord.
Psalm 106:17 - The ground opened up and swallowed Dathan. It buried Abiram and his followers.
Psalm 106:18 - Fire blazed among all of them. Flames destroyed those evil people.
Psalm 106:19 - At Mount Horeb they made a metal statue of a bull calf. They worshiped that statue of a god.
Psalm 106:20 - They traded their glorious God for a statue of a bull that eats grass.
Psalm 106:21 - They forgot the God who saved them. They forgot the God who had done great things in Egypt.
Psalm 106:22 - They forgot the miracles he did in the land of Ham. They forgot the wonderful things he did by the Red Sea.
Psalm 106:23 - So he said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood up for them. He kept God’s anger from destroying them.
Psalm 106:24 - Later on, they refused to enter the pleasant land of Canaan. They didn’t believe God’s promise.
Psalm 106:25 - In their tents they told the Lord how unhappy they were. They didn’t obey him.
Psalm 106:26 - So he lifted up his hand and promised that he would make them die in the desert.
Psalm 106:27 - He promised he would scatter their children’s children among the nations. He would make them die in other lands.
Psalm 106:28 - They joined in worshiping the Baal that was worshiped at Peor. They ate food that had been offered to gods that aren’t even alive.
Psalm 106:29 - Their evil ways made the Lord angry. So a plague broke out among them.
Psalm 106:30 - But Phinehas stood up and took action. Then the plague stopped.
Psalm 106:31 - What Phinehas did made him right with the Lord. It will be remembered for all time to come.
Psalm 106:32 - By the waters of Meribah the Lord’s people made him angry. Moses got in trouble because of them.
Psalm 106:33 - They refused to obey the Spirit of God. So Moses spoke without thinking.
Psalm 106:34 - They didn’t destroy the nations in Canaan as the Lord had commanded them.
Psalm 106:35 - Instead, they mixed with those nations and adopted their ways.
Psalm 106:36 - They worshiped statues of their gods. That became a trap for them.
Psalm 106:37 - They sacrificed their sons and daughters as offerings to false gods.
Psalm 106:38 - They killed those who weren’t guilty of doing anything wrong. They killed their own sons and daughters. They sacrificed them as offerings to statues of the gods of Canaan. The land became “unclean” because of the blood of their children.
Psalm 106:39 - The people made themselves impure by what they had done. They weren’t faithful to the Lord.
Psalm 106:40 - So the Lord became angry with his people. He turned away from his own children.
Psalm 106:41 - He handed them over to the nations. Their enemies ruled over them.
Psalm 106:42 - Their enemies treated them badly and kept them under their power.
Psalm 106:43 - Many times the Lord saved them. But they refused to obey him. So he destroyed them because of their sins.
Psalm 106:44 - Yet he heard them when they cried out. He paid special attention to their suffering.
Psalm 106:45 - Because they were his people, he remembered his covenant. Because of his great love, he felt sorry for them.
Psalm 106:46 - He made all those who held them as prisoners have mercy on them.
Psalm 106:47 - Lord our God, save us. Bring us back from among the nations. Then we will give thanks to you, because your name is holy. We will celebrate by praising you.
Psalm 106:48 - Give praise to the Lord, the God of Israel, for ever and ever. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:21 - “ ‘ “But their children refused to obey me. They did not follow my rules. They were not careful to keep my laws. The person who obeys them will live by them. They misused my Sabbath days. So I said I would pour out all my great anger on them in the desert.
Ezekiel 20:13 - “ ‘ “But in the desert the people of Israel refused to obey me. They did not follow my rules. They turned their backs on my laws. The person who obeys them will live by them. They totally misused my Sabbath days. So I said I would pour out my great anger on them. I would destroy them in the desert.
1 Corinthians 10:5 - But God was not pleased with most of them. Their bodies were scattered in the desert.
1 Corinthians 10:6 - Now those things happened as examples for us. They are supposed to keep us from wanting evil things. The people of Israel wanted these evil things.
1 Corinthians 10:7 - So don’t worship statues of gods, as some of them did. It is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance wildly in front of their god.” ( Exodus 32:6 )
1 Corinthians 10:8 - We should not commit sexual sins, as some of them did. In one day 23,000 of them died.
1 Corinthians 10:9 - We should not test the Messiah, as some of them did. They were killed by snakes.
1 Corinthians 10:10 - Don’t speak against God. That’s what some of the people of Israel did. And they were killed by the destroying angel.
Numbers 11:1 - The people weren’t happy about the hard times they were having. The Lord heard what they were saying. It made him very angry. Then the Lord sent fire on them. It blazed out among the people. It burned up some of the outer edges of the camp.
Numbers 11:2 - The people cried out to Moses. Then he prayed to the Lord. And the fire died down.
Numbers 11:3 - So that place was named Taberah. That’s because fire from the Lord had blazed out among them there.
Numbers 11:4 - Some people with them began to wish for other food. Again the Israelites began to cry out. They said, “We wish we had meat to eat.
Numbers 11:5 - We remember the fish we ate in Egypt. It didn’t cost us anything. We also remember the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Numbers 11:6 - But now we’ve lost all interest in eating. We never see anything but this manna!”
Numbers 11:7 - The manna was like coriander seeds. It looked like sap from a tree.
Numbers 11:8 - The people went around gathering it. Then they ground it up in a small mill they held in their hands. Or they crushed it in a stone bowl. They cooked it in a pot. Or they made loaves out of it. It tasted like something made with olive oil.
Numbers 11:9 - When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
Numbers 11:10 - Moses heard people from every family crying at the entrances to their tents. The Lord became very angry. So Moses became upset.
Numbers 11:11 - He asked the Lord, “Why have you brought this trouble on me? Why aren’t you pleased with me? Why have you loaded me down with the troubles of all these people?
Numbers 11:12 - Am I like a mother to them? Are they my children? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms? Do I have to carry them the way a nurse carries a baby? Do I have to carry them to the land you promised? You promised the land to their people of long ago.
Numbers 11:13 - Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep crying out to me. They say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Numbers 11:14 - I can’t carry all these people by myself. The load is too heavy for me.
Numbers 11:15 - Is this how you are going to treat me? If you are pleased with me, just put me to death right now. Don’t let me live if I have to see myself destroyed anyway.”
Numbers 11:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “Bring me 70 of Israel’s elders. Bring men that you know are leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting. I want them to stand there with you.
Numbers 11:17 - I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you. And I will put it on them. They will share the responsibility of these people with you. Then you will not have to carry it alone.
Numbers 11:18 - “Tell the people, ‘Set yourselves apart for tomorrow. At that time you will eat meat. The Lord heard you when you cried out. You said, “We wish we had meat to eat. We were better off in Egypt.” Now the Lord will give you meat. And you will eat it.
Numbers 11:19 - You will not eat it for just one or two days. You will not eat it for just five, ten or 20 days.
Numbers 11:20 - Instead, you will eat it for a whole month. You will eat it until it comes out of your noses. You will eat it until you hate it. The Lord is among you. But you have turned your back on him. You have cried out while he was listening. You have said, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”
Numbers 11:21 - But Moses said to the Lord, “Here I am among 600,000 men on the march. And you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month’!
Numbers 11:22 - Would they have enough if flocks and herds were killed for them? Would they have enough even if all the fish in the ocean were caught for them?”
Numbers 11:23 - The Lord answered Moses, “Am I not strong enough? Now you will see whether what I say will come true for you.”
Numbers 11:24 - So Moses went out. He told the people what the Lord had said. He gathered 70 of their elders together. He had them stand around the tent of meeting.
Numbers 11:25 - Then the Lord came down in the cloud. He spoke with Moses. He took some of the power of the Spirit that was on Moses. And he put it on the 70 elders. When the Spirit came on them, they prophesied. But they didn’t do it again.
Numbers 11:26 - Two men had remained in the camp. Their names were Eldad and Medad. They were listed among the elders. But they didn’t go out to the tent of meeting. In spite of that, the Spirit came on them too. So they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers 11:27 - A young man ran up to Moses. He said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Numbers 11:28 - Joshua spoke up. He was the son of Nun. Joshua had been Moses’ helper from the time he was young. He said, “Moses! Please stop them!”
Numbers 11:29 - But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets. And I wish that the Lord would put his Spirit on them.”
Numbers 11:30 - Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
Numbers 11:31 - The Lord sent out a wind. It drove quail in from the Red Sea. It scattered them all around the camp. They were about three feet above the ground. They could be seen in every direction as far as a person could walk in a day.
Numbers 11:32 - The people went out all day and gathered quail. They gathered them all night and all the next day. No one gathered less than 60 bushels. Then they spread the quail out all around the camp.
Numbers 11:33 - But while the meat was still in their mouths, the Lord acted. Before the people could swallow it, he became very angry with them. He struck them with a terrible plague.
Numbers 11:34 - So the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah. That’s where the bodies of the people who had wished for other food were buried.
Numbers 11:35 - From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth. And they stayed there.