Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Ba´al–pe´or: for all the men that followed Ba´al–pe´or, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Ba´al–pe´or, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Si´nai.
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Ba´laam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Pe´or, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
Is the iniquity of Pe´or too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,