16 (A)Behold, they caused the sons of Israel, through the [a]counsel of (B)Balaam, to be unfaithful to the Lord in the matter of Peor, so that the plague took place among the congregation of the Lord!

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:16 Lit word

16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,(B) so that a plague(C) struck the Lord’s people.

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22 The sons of Israel also killed (A)Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their dead.

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22 In addition to those slain in battle, the Israelites had put to the sword Balaam son of Beor,(A) who practiced divination.(B)

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