²⁴ My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.^(A)

¹⁰ Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”^(A)

¹¹ But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God: “Lord, why does your anger burn against your people you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?

Complaints about Hardship

11 Now the people began complaining openly before^[a] the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, his anger burned,^(A) and fire^(B) from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

³³ While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned^(A) against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.^(B)

¹³ The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight was gone.^(A)

¹⁵ for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God.^(A) Otherwise, the Lord your God will become angry with you and obliterate you from the face of the earth.