Joshua 22:17
Good News Translation
Remember our sin at Peor, when the LORD punished his own people with an epidemic? We are still suffering because of that. Wasn't that sin enough?

New Revised Standard Version
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,

Contemporary English Version
Wasn't our people's sin at Peor terrible enough for you? The LORD punished us by sending a horrible sickness that killed many of us, and we still suffer because of that sin.

New American Bible
Is the iniquity of Peor not enough, by which we made ourselves impure, even to this day, and a plague came upon the community of the LORD?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.

Is the iniquity

Numbers 25:3,4 And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry, . . .

Deuteronomy 4:3,4 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you. . . .

Psalm 106:28,29 They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead. . . .

from which

Ezra 9:13,14 And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day, . . .

1 Corinthians 10:8,11 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand. . . .

Context
The Offensive Altar
16Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him? 17Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.18And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and to morrow his wrath will rage against all Israel.…
Cross References
Numbers 25:1
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:3
And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,

Joshua 22:16
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