And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
O Jehovah, our God, Thou hast afflicted them, A God forgiving Thou hast been to them, And taking vengeance on their actions.
See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.
and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel.
and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman -- unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;
and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;