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Chapter 25

Worship of Baal of Peor. While Israel was living at Shittim,[a] the people profaned themselves by prostituting themselves with the Moabite women.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:1 Shittim: the full name was Abel-shittim, a locality at the foot of the mountains in the northeastern corner of the plains of Moab (33:49). Prostituting themselves: the application to men of such traditional language for apostasy clearly suggests apostasy was taken to be an inevitable consequence of intermarriage with the Midianite women.