Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds: and the plague broke in upon them.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own deeds.
You answered them, O LORD our God: you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance on their wrongdoings.
Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.
And Israel joined itself unto Baal of Peor: 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.