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28 After that, they started to worship the false god, Baal of Peor.
They ate the food from sacrifices
    that people gave to dead idols.
29 The Lord became angry
    because of what his people did.
He sent a bad disease among them.
30 Then Phinehas punished the guilty people,
    so that the disease stopped killing people.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 106:30 See Numbers 25:7-8.

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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