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they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
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Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, and the plague was stopped.
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And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.
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They angered the Lord at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
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for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke words that were rash.
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