²¹ Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, Anger also went up against Israel,

¹ The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.

² The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

³ The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them.

¹⁰ Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.

²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

³¹ When the anger of God went up against them, Killed some of the fattest of them, And struck down the young men of Israel.

⁵ However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.