1 While Israel was living at Shittim, the people profaned themselves by prostituting themselves with the Moabite women.
2 These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices and bowed down to their god.
3 Israel thereby attached itself to the Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger flared up against Israel.
4 The Lord said to Moses: Gather all the leaders of the people, and publicly execute them before the Lord, that the blazing wrath of the Lord may turn away from Israel.
5 So Moses told the Israelite judges, “Each of you kill those of his men who have attached themselves to the Baal of Peor.”