Numbers 25:1
Good News Translation
When the Israelites were camped at Acacia Valley, the men began to have sexual intercourse with the Moabite women who were there.

New Revised Standard Version
While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

Contemporary English Version
While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men had sex with Moabite women.

New American Bible
While Israel was living at Shittim, the people profaned themselves by prostituting themselves with the Moabite women.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

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And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

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Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.

Joshua 23:7,16 Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them: . . .

1 Kings 19:18 And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not worshipped him, kissing the hands.

Context
Moab Seduces Israel
1And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,2Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Revelation 2:14
But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

Exodus 34:15
Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

Numbers 25:17
Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:

Numbers 31:2
Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people.

Numbers 31:16
Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

Numbers 33:49
And there they camped from Bethsimoth even to Ablesatim in the plains of the Moabites,

Deuteronomy 3:29
And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.

Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.

Deuteronomy 32:38
Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

Joshua 2:1
And Joshua, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of Jericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.

Joshua 22:17
Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.

Jeremiah 40:11
Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea, and that he had made Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:

Ezekiel 20:21
But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert.

Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

Micah 6:5
O my people, remember, I pray thee, what Balach, the king of Moab, purposed: and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, from Setim to Galgal, that thou mightest know the justice of the Lord.

Numbers 24:25
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