Israel Worships Baal

25 While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove,^[a](A) the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.

¹⁶ “Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.^(A)

⁸ Let us not commit sexual immorality^(A) as some of them did,^[a] and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.^(B)