Numbers 25:1

In 11 translations

BSB

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,Or Acacia Grove

KJV

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

WEB

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

ASV

And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:

LSV

And Israel dwells in Shittim, and the people begin to go whoring to daughters of Moab,

YLT

And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

DBY

And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.

DRC

And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

GNV

Nowe whiles Israel abode in Shittim, the people began to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab:

JPS

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.

LXXE

And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.Heb. חלל to begin and to profane, etc.

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WLC

וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּשִּׁטִּ֑ים וַיָּ֣חֶל הָעָ֔ם לִזְנ֖וֹת אֶל־בְּנ֥וֹת מוֹאָֽב׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ κατέλυσεν Ἰσραὴλ ἐν Σαττεὶν, καὶ ἐβεβηλώθη ὁ λαὸς ἐκπορνεῦσαι εἰς τὰς θυγατέρας Μωάβ.

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• 1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
• Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
• Numbers 33:49And there on the plains of Moab they camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
• Micah 6:5My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
• Revelation 2:14But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual…
• Joshua 3:1Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
• Numbers 31:15–16“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them. “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of…
• Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

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