Numbers 25:3
New International Version
So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the LORD’s anger burned against them.

New Living Translation
In this way, Israel joined in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD’s anger to blaze against his people.

English Standard Version
So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.

King James Bible
And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

New King James Version
So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.

New American Standard Bible
So Israel became followers of Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry with Israel.

NASB 1995
So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel.

NASB 1977
So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry against Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel.

Amplified Bible
So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor [in worship]. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

Christian Standard Bible
So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.

American Standard Version
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Israel was initiated to Baal Peor and the wrath of LORD JEHOVAH was provoked against the children of Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

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

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

English Revised Version
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Since the Israelites joined in worshiping the god Baal of Peor, the LORD became angry with Israel.

Good News Translation
Baal of Peor. So the LORD was angry with them

International Standard Version
The people joined the Baal-peor cult. As a result, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Israel joined himself unto the Baal of Peor; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

Literal Standard Version
and Israel is joined to Ba‘al-Peor, and the anger of YHWH burns against Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.

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

NET Bible
When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.

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

New Heart English Bible
Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

World English Bible
Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel.

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Context
Moab Seduces Israel
2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods. 3So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them. 4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

Psalm 106:28
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Psalm 106:29
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.


Treasury of Scripture

And Israel joined himself to Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

all the heads

Numbers 25:14,15,18
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites…

Exodus 18:25
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

and hang.

Deuteronomy 13:6-9,13,15
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; …

Deuteronomy 21:23
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

2 Samuel 21:6,9
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them

that the fierce

Numbers 25:11
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Deuteronomy 13:17
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

Joshua 7:25,26
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones…

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1. Israel at Shittim commit unfaithfulness and idolatry
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10. God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood
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Verse 3. - Israel joined himself unto Baal-Peor. This is a technical phrase, repeated in verse 5, and quoted in Psalm 106:28, expressing the quasi-sacramental union into which they entered with the heathen deity by partaking of his sacrificial meats and by sharing in his impure rites (cf. Hosea 9:10 and the argument of St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 10). There can be little doubt that Peor (פְּעור, from פָעַר, to open) has the sense of aperiens, in usu obsceno, and that it was the distinguishing name of Baal or Chemosh when worshipped as the god of reproduction with the abominable rites proper to this cultus. For a notice of the same thing in the last days of Israel see Hosea 4:14, and for the practice of Babylonian and (to some degree) Egyptian women, see Herodotus, 1:199; 2:60). The Septuagint has here ἐτελέσθη τῷ Βεελφεγώρ, "was consecrated," or "initiated," unto Baal-Peor, which admirably expressed the sense.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

joined in worshiping
וַיִּצָּ֥מֶד (way·yiṣ·ṣā·meḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6775: To link, gird, to serve, contrive

Baal of Peor,
פְּע֑וֹר (pə·‘ō·wr)
Preposition | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1187: Baal of Peor', a Moabite god

and the LORD’s
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

anger
אַ֥ף (’ap̄)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

burned
וַיִּֽחַר־ (way·yi·ḥar-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2734: To glow, grow warm, to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy

against [them].
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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