they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
We must not engage 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 human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.
Thus they became unclean by their acts and prostituted themselves in their doings.
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.
Thus Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel.
he went after the Israelite man into the tent and pierced the two of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the plague was stopped among the Israelites.