Numbers 25:9

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’ ”

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”

Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,

then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”

Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.

The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day.

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.

that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”

God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.