¹⁶ “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice^(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,^(B) so that a plague^(C) struck the Lord’s people.

⁸ We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^(A)