Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

Holman Bible

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

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,

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 to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. 28 They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.


Cross References

Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.

Deuteronomy 4:3

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.

Numbers 25:1-3

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

Numbers 25:5

And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, "Go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal- Peor."

Numbers 31:16

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD by the reason of Peor: and there followed a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not.

Joshua 22:17

Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?

Psalm 115:4-8

Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands.

Jeremiah 10:8-10

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything?

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast, there, they that maintain the doctrine of Balaam, which taught in Balak to put occasion of sin before the children of Israel, that they should eat of meat dedicated unto idols, and to commit fornication.

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