Their evil ways made the Lord angry. So a plague broke out among them.
The people made themselves impure by what they had done. They weren’t faithful to the Lord.
Lord our God, you answered them. You showed Israel that you are a God who forgives. But when they did wrong, you punished them.
Here’s the only other thing I found. God created human beings as honest. But they’ve made many evil plans.”
So Israel joined in worshiping the god named Baal that was worshiped at Peor. The Lord became very angry with Israel.
He followed the man into the tent. Phinehas stuck the spear through the man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the Lord stopped the plague against the Israelites.
But the plague had already killed 24,000 of them.
We should not commit sexual sins, as some of them did. In one day 23,000 of them died.