New Revised Standard Version
they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Contemporary English Version
They did such terrible things that you punished them with a deadly disease.

New American Bible
They provoked him by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

with their

Psalm 106:39 And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.

Psalm 99:8 Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.

Deuteronomy 32:16-21 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. . . .

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Romans 1:21-24 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

the plague

Numbers 25:9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.