Baal Worship at Peor

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

Rahab Hides the Spies

2 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.

^8 (A)We must not indulge in sexual immorality ^(B)as some of them did, and ^(C)twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

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

Israel Crosses the Jordan

3 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.

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.

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.

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.