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Balak Sends for Balaam

22 (A)Then the sons of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho.

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Israel Sacrifices to Baal

25 And Israel remained at (A)Shittim, and the people began (B)to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. Indeed (C)they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

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Let the [a]banished of Moab sojourn with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
(A)Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:4 As in the versions; M.T. My banished ones, as for Moab

26 Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and (A)all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are (B)uncircumcised of heart.”

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