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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 25 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.