They infuriated God by what they did, and a plague broke out among them.
They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.
O Lord, our God, you answered them. You showed them that you are a forgiving God and that you are a God who punishes their ⌞sinful⌟ deeds.
I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways ⌞to avoid being decent⌟.”
Since the Israelites joined in worshiping the god Baal of Peor, the Lord became angry with Israel.
and went into the tent after the Israelite man. He drove the spear through the man and into the woman’s body. Because of this, the plague that the Israelites were experiencing stopped.
However, 24,000 people died from that plague.
We shouldn’t sin sexually as some of them did. Twenty-three thousand of them died on one day.