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Chapter 25

Worship of Baal of Peor. While Israel was living at Shittim,[a] the people profaned themselves by prostituting themselves with the Moabite women.(A) These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices(B) and bowed down to their god. Israel thereby attached itself to the Baal of Peor,(C) and the Lord’s anger flared up against Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:1 Shittim: the full name was Abel-shittim, a locality at the foot of the mountains in the northeastern corner of the plains of Moab (33:49). Prostituting themselves: the application to men of such traditional language for apostasy clearly suggests apostasy was taken to be an inevitable consequence of intermarriage with the Midianite women.