Numbers 25:3
Good News Translation
Baal of Peor. So the LORD was angry with them

New Revised Standard Version
Thus Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD was angry with Israel because they had worshiped the god Baal Peor.

New American Bible
Israel thereby attached itself to the Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger flared up against Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,

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

all the heads

Numbers 25:14,15,18 And the name of the Israelite, that was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe of Simeon. . . .

Exodus 18:25 And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them rulers of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.

Deuteronomy 4:3 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.

Joshua 23:2 Joshua called for all Israel, and for the elders, and for the princes, and for the judges, and for the masters, and said to them: I am old, and far advanced in years,

and hang.

Deuteronomy 13:6-9,13,15 If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers, . . .

Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the same day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession.

2 Samuel 21:6,9 Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them. . . .

Esther 7:9,10 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman's house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it. . . .

that the fierce

Numbers 25:11 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.

Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,

Joshua 7:25,26 Where Joshua said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire. . . .

Psalm 85:3,4 Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation. . . .

Jonah 3:9 And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.

Context
Moab Seduces Israel
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,4Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:3
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
They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Psalm 106:29
And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

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.

Numbers 25:2
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