Numbers 25:18 meaning and explanation

For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”

Numbers 25:18, Berean Standard Bible

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The LORD is speaking to Moses, giving the reason for the command in verse 17 to attack Midian. Israel had been camped at Shittim, and Moabite and Midianite women had drawn the men into sexual immorality and then into the worship of Baal of Peor, which brought a plague that killed twenty four thousand.

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