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26 So you threatened them
by saying, “I'll kill you
    out here in the desert!
27 (A) I'll scatter your children
    everywhere in the world.”

28 (B) Your people became followers
    of a god named Baal Peor,
and they ate sacrifices
    offered to the dead.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 106.28 the dead: Or “lifeless idols.”

26 So he swore(A) to them with uplifted hand
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,(B)
27 make their descendants fall among the nations
    and scatter(C) them throughout the lands.

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

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