³⁷ The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab.^[a] He is the father of the Moabites of today.^(A)

Balak Hires Balaam

22 The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho.

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.

³ No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the Lord’s assembly;^(A) none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the Lord’s assembly.

⁵ So Moses the servant of the Lord^(A) died there in the land of Moab, according to the Lord’s word. ⁶ He buried him^[a] in the valley^(B) in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.^(C)

³⁰ Moab became subject to Israel that day, and the land had peace for eighty years.

² The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife’s name was Naomi.^[a] The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites^(A) from Bethlehem in Judah. They entered the fields of Moab and settled there.

² He also defeated the Moabites, and after making them lie down on the ground, he measured them off with a cord. He measured every two cord lengths of those to be put to death and one full length of those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute.^(A)

⁷ At that time, Solomon built a high place^(A) for Chemosh,^(B) the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom,^[a](C) the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.^(D)