Numbers 25:1 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Worship of Baal of Peor
25 While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:8 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.(A)
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Joshua 2:1 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Spies Sent to Jericho
2 Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.(A)
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Numbers 33:49 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
49 they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.(A)
Read full chapterRevelation 2:14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.[a](A)
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- 2.14 Or prostitution
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Micah 6:5 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised,
what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”(A)
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Joshua 3:1 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Israel Crosses the Jordan
3 Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim with all the Israelites, and they came to the Jordan. They camped there before crossing over.(A)
Read full chapterNumbers 31:15-16 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live? 16 These women here, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites act treacherously against the Lord in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:26 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.(A)
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