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Numbers 25:3
New English Translation
Numbers 25:3
New English Translation
3 When Israel joined themselves to Baal Peor,[a] the anger of the Lord flared up against Israel.
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- Numbers 25:3 tn The verb is “yoked” to Baal Peor. The word is unusual, and may suggest the physical, ritual participation described below. It certainly shows that they acknowledge the reality of the local god.sn The evidence indicates that Moab was part of the very corrupt Canaanite world, a world that was given over to the fertility ritual of the times.
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