Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

New American Standard Bible

They joined themselves also to Baal-peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

King James Version

They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

International Standard Version

For they adopted the worship of Baal Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

A Conservative Version

They also joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

American Standard Version

They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Amplified


They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

Bible in Basic English

And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

Darby Translation

And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

Julia Smith Translation

And they will be bound to Baalpeor, and they will eat the sacrifices of the dead.

King James 2000

They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices to the dead.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to [the] dead.

Modern King James verseion

And they joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead.

NET Bible

They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

New Heart English Bible

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

The Emphasized Bible

Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal-peor, - and did eat sacrifices to the dead:

Webster

They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

World English Bible

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
צמד 
Tsamad 
Usage: 5

בּעל פּעור 
Ba`al P@`owr 
Usage: 6

and ate
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

זבח 
Zebach 
Usage: 162

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

27 and would disperse their descendants
among the nations,
scattering them throughout the lands.
28 They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
29 They provoked the Lord with their deeds,
and a plague broke out against them.


Cross References

Hosea 9:10

I discovered Israel
like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal-peor,
consecrated themselves to Shame,
and became detestable,
like the thing they loved.

Deuteronomy 4:3

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

Numbers 25:1-3

While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

Numbers 25:5

So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”

Numbers 31:16

“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.

Joshua 22:17

Wasn’t the sin of Peor, which brought a plague on the Lord’s community, enough for us, so that we have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Jeremiah 10:8-10

They are both stupid and foolish,
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

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