Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in on them.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
You answered them, O LORD our God: you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.
See, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
And Israel joined himself to Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.