Israel Worships Baal

25 While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove,[a](A) the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.

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  1. 25:1 Or in Shittim

Moab Seduces Israel

25 While Israel was staying in Shittim,(A) the men began to indulge in sexual immorality(B) with Moabite(C) women,(D)

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25 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

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16 “Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.(A)

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16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,(B) so that a plague(C) struck the Lord’s people.

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16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

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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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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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