Numbers 25:1
And Yisroel was staying in Sheetim, and HaAm began to commit whoredom with the Banot Moav.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 34:15Lest thou make a brit with the inhabitants of HaAretz, and they go a-whoring after eloheihem, and do sacrifice unto eloheihem, and one invite thee, and thou eat of his zevach (sacrifice, i.e., participate in his pagan worship);
Numbers 31:15And Moshe said unto them, Have ye saved all the nekevah alive?
Numbers 33:49And they set out by Yarden, from Beit-HaYeshimot even unto Avel-Sheetim in the plains of Moav.
Joshua 3:1And Yehoshua rose early in the boker; and they set out from Sheetim, and came to the Yarden, he and Kol Bnei Yisroel, and camped there before they crossed over.
Psalms 106:28They joined themselves also unto Ba'al-Pe'or, 1 and ate the zivkhei mesim (sacrifices offered to the dead). 1
Hosea 9:10I found Yisroel like grapes in the midbar; 1 I saw your avot as the bikkurah 1 in the fig tree at her first season; 1 but they went to Ba'al-Pe'or, 1 and separated themselves unto that shame; 1 and their abominations were according as they loved. 1
Matthew Henry on Numbers 25:1
Israel, having escaped the curse of Balaam, here sustains a great deal of damage and reproach by the counsel of Balaam, who, it seems, before he left Balak, put him into a more effectual way than that which Balak thought of to separate between the Israelites and their God. "The Lord will not be prevailed with by Balaam's charms to ruin them; try if they will not be prevailed with by the charms of the daughters of Moab to ruin themselves." None are more fatally bewitched than those that are bewitched by their own… Read the whole commentary →