While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.
Hebrews 2:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding , and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if the message given through angels [the Law spoken by them to Moses] was authentic and proved sure, and every violation and disobedience received an appropriate (just and adequate) penalty, American Standard Version (1901) For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; Common English Bible If the message that was spoken by angels was reliable, and every offense and act of disobedience received an appropriate consequence, Catholic Public Domain Version For if a word that was spoken through the Angels has been made firm, and every transgression and disobedience has received the recompense of a just retribution, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if the word, spoken by angels, became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward: |
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.
Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.
You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.’
Why, then, was the law given? It was added for the sake of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.
The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
‘If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the Lord your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violating his covenant
you are to bring out to your city gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.
“Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.” And all the people will say, “Amen! ”
Let my teaching fall like rain and my word settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass and showers on tender plants.
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways.
Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
For he considered reproach for the sake of Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since he was looking ahead to the reward.
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven.
We also have the prophetic word strongly confirmed, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;