You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice.
Psalm 106:28 - New Revised Standard Version Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They joined themselves also to the [idol] Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices [offered] to the lifeless [gods]. American Standard Version (1901) They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead. Common English Bible They joined themselves to Baal-peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. Catholic Public Domain Version And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he led them out of their distress. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses. |
You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice.
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you shall kill any of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”
These women here, on Balaam's advice, made the Israelites act treacherously against the Lord in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.
They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.
You have seen for yourselves what the Lord did with regard to the Baal of Peor—how the Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,
Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which a plague came upon the congregation of the Lord,
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice fornication.