Baal Worship at Peor

25 While Israel lived in (A)Shittim, (B)the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.

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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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(A)We must not indulge in sexual immorality (B)as some of them did, and (C)twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

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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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Rahab Hides the Spies

And Joshua the son of Nun (A)sent[a] two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of (B)a prostitute whose name was (C)Rahab and lodged there.

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Footnotes

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Rahab and the Spies

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies(A) from Shittim.(B) “Go, look over(C) the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.(D)” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab(E) and stayed there.

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49 they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as (A)Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

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49 There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth(A) to Abel Shittim.(B)

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14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might (B)eat food sacrificed to idols and (C)practice sexual immorality.

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14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you:(A) There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam,(B) who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols(C) and committed sexual immorality.(D)

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O my people, remember (A)what Balak king of Moab devised,
    and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from (B)Shittim to Gilgal,
    that you may know (C)the righteous acts of the Lord.”

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My people, remember
    what Balak(A) king of Moab plotted
    and what Balaam son of Beor answered.
Remember your journey from Shittim(B) to Gilgal,(C)
    that you may know the righteous acts(D) of the Lord.”

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Israel Crosses the Jordan

Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out (A)from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

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Crossing the Jordan

Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim(A) and went to the Jordan,(B) where they camped before crossing over.

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15 Moses said to them, “Have you (A)let all the women live? 16 Behold, (B)these, (C)on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of (D)Peor, and so (E)the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.

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15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 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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26 And I find something more (A)bitter than death: (B)the woman whose heart is (C)snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but (D)the sinner is taken by her.

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26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,(A)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.(B)

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