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Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.
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And that was accounted to him for righteousness To all generations forevermore.
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They angered Him also at the waters of strife, So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
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Because they rebelled against His Spirit, So that he spoke rashly with his lips.
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They did not destroy the peoples, Concerning whom the Lord had commanded them,
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But they mingled with the Gentiles And learned their works;
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They served their idols, Which became a snare to them.
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They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons,
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And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
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Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.
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Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people, So that He abhorred His own inheritance.