When the LORD heard this, he was angry and furious with Jacob's descendants, the people of Israel.
God became angry and killed the strongest and best from the families of Israel.
Then the LORD's people turned against him and made his Holy Spirit sad. So he became their enemy and attacked them.
The Israelites stood around their tents complaining. Moses heard them and was upset that they had made the LORD angry.
These things happened to them as a warning to us. All this was written in the Scriptures to teach us who live in these last days.
But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert.
"My people, I will breathe out fire that sends you down to the world of the dead. It will scorch your farmlands and burn deep down under the mountains.
Our God is like a destructive fire!
Don't forget what happened to those people that the Lord rescued from Egypt. Some of them did not have faith, and he later destroyed them.