Quail From the Lord

⁴ The rabble with them began to crave other food,^(A) and again the Israelites started wailing^(B) and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(A) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

³⁸ Many other people^(A) went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

³ When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.^(A)

³³ Do not be misled:^(A) “Bad company corrupts good character.”^[a](B)

¹⁴ Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ,^(A) and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.^[a](B)

A Blasphemer Put to Death

¹⁰ Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. ¹¹ The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name^(A) with a curse;^(B) so they brought him to Moses.^(C) (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)^(D)