⁴ The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!^(A)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.^(A)

³⁸ A mixed crowd also went up with them and livestock in great numbers, both flocks and herds.^(A)

³ When the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.^(A)

³³ Do not be deceived:

¹⁴ Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.^(A)

Blasphemy and Its Punishment

¹⁰ A man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian came out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and a certain Israelite began fighting in the camp. ¹¹ The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they brought him to Moses—now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan^(A)—