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30 Then Phinehas punished the guilty people,
    so that the disease stopped killing people.[a]
31 So we remember that Phinehas was a righteous man,
    and that will be true for ever.
32 At Meribah springs, the Israelites made God angry.
    What they did there caused Moses to have trouble.

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Footnotes

  1. 106:30 See Numbers 25:7-8.

30 But Phinehas(A) stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was checked.(B)
31 This was credited to him(C) as righteousness
    for endless generations(D) to come.
32 By the waters of Meribah(E) they angered the Lord,
    and trouble came to Moses because of them;

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