Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
You answered them, LORD our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
Yisra'el joined himself to Ba`al-Pe`or: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Yisra'el.
and he went after the man of Yisra'el into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisra'el, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Yisra'el.
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.