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VI

28 They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor,(A)
    ate food sacrificed to the dead.

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From Former Glory to a History of Corruption

10 Like grapes in the desert,
    I found Israel;
Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen,(A)
    I looked on your ancestors.
But when they came to Baal-peor[a](B)
    and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One,
    they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:10 Baal-peor: where the Israelites consecrated themselves for the first time to Baal (Nm 25; see note on Hos 5:1–2). Baal is here called the Shameful One.