New Revised Standard Version
Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

Contemporary English Version
Your people became followers of a god named Baal Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

New American Bible
They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor, ate food sacrificed to the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

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

joined

Numbers 25:1-3,5 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, . . .

Numbers 31:16 Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

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.

Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

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.

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.

Revelation 2:14 But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

of the dead.

Psalm 115:4-8 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. . . .

Jeremiah 10:8-10 They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:19,20 What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing? . . .