And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Thus they provoked {him} to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

But I have a few things against thee, 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 things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

She also lieth in wait as {for} a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. {as for...: or, as a robber}

{Is} the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

Thus they provoked {him} to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Lest there {be} any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong {men} have been slain by her.

And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard {it}: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.