Numbers 25:2
Good News Translation
These women invited them to sacrificial feasts, where the god of Moab was worshiped. The Israelites ate the food and worshiped the god

New Revised Standard Version
These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Contemporary English Version
These women then invited the men to ceremonies where sacrifices were offered to their gods. The men ate the meat from the sacrifices and worshiped the Moabite gods.

New American Bible
These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices and bowed down to their god.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.

joined

Numbers 25:5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.

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. . . .

Joshua 22:17 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.

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

Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

the anger

Joshua 22:17 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.

Judges 2:14,20 And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies: . . .

Psalm 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

Jeremiah 17:4 And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.

Context
Moab Seduces Israel
1And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, 2Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.3And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,…
Cross References
Exodus 22:20
He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.

Exodus 32:6
And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

Exodus 34:15
Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

Deuteronomy 32:38
Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

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

Jeremiah 40:11
Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea, and that he had made Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:

Numbers 25:1
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