² who invited them to the sacrifices^(A) to their gods.^(B) The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. ³ So Israel yoked themselves to^(C) the Baal of Peor.^(D) And the Lord’s anger burned against them.

⁴ The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders^(E) of these people, kill them and expose^(F) them in broad daylight before the Lord,^(G) so that the Lord’s fierce anger^(H) may turn away from Israel.”