And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.
And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the old generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.
And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary. And thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood.
Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together: to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.
And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace-offerings. And the Lord became merciful to the land: and the plague was stayed from Israel.