Numbers 25:2 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 25:2

And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

KJV

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ASV

for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

WEB

who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.

YLT

and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods,

DBT

And they invited the people to the sacrifices of theirgods; and the people ate, and bowed down to theirgods.

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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1 Corinthians 10:20
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus 34:15–16
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also unto Baal–peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

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Unto the sacrifices - Unto the feasts which were made of their parts of the sacrifices, after the manner of the Jews and Gentiles too, the participation whereof, was reckoned a participation in the worship of that God to whom the sacrifices were offered. Of their gods - Of their God, Baal-peor, the plural Elohim being here used, as commonly it is, for one God.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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