28 They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.[a](A)

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  1. 106:28 Lit sacrifices for dead ones

28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor(A)
    and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

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Ephraim Bereaved of Offspring

10 I discovered Israel
like grapes in the wilderness.(A)
I saw your ancestors
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.(B)
But they went to Baal-peor,(C)
consecrated themselves to Shame,[a](D)
and became abhorrent,(E)
like the thing they loved.

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  1. 9:10 = Baal

10 “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit(A) on the fig(B) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(C)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(D)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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Let us not commit sexual immorality(A) as some of them did,[a] and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.(B)

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  1. 10:8 Lit them committed sexual immorality

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.(A)

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