So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger burned against Israel.

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

For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.”

“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.