“for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.”

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.