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- They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
- they provoked the LORD to anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.
- This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
- By the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;
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- for they rebelled against the Spirit of God, and rash words came from Moses' lips.
- They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
- but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
- They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
- They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
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- They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.
- They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
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