they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.