Numbers 25:1-3

Israel Sacrifices to Baal

And Israel remained at ^aShittim, and the people began ^bto play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. 2 Indeed ^athey called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So ^aIsrael joined themselves to ¹Baal of Peor, and the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel.

Numbers 25:17

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17 “^aBe hostile to the Midianites and strike them,

Numbers 25:18

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18 for they have been hostile to you with their deceptive tricks, with which they have deceived you in the affair of Peor and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was slain on the day of the plague because of Peor.”