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28 (A) Your people became followers
    of a god named Baal Peor,
and they ate sacrifices
    offered to the dead.[a]
29 They did such terrible things
that you punished them
    with a deadly disease.
30 But Phinehas[b] helped them,
    and the sickness stopped.

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Footnotes

  1. 106.28 the dead: Or “lifeless idols.”
  2. 106.30 Phinehas: The grandson of Aaron, who put two people to death and kept the Lord from being angry with the rest of his people (see Numbers 25.1-13).

28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor(A)
    and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
29 they aroused the Lord’s anger(B) by their wicked deeds,(C)
    and a plague(D) broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas(E) stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was checked.(F)

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