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Worship of Baal of Peor

25 While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women, who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed[a] and then worshipped their gods. The people joined the Baal-peor cult.[b] As a result, the anger of the Lord flared up against Israel,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:2 The Heb. lacks what they had sacrificed
  2. Numbers 25:3 Lit. joined themselves to Baal-Peor; and so throughout the chapter