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27 He promised that he would chase their descendants away,
    so that they died in foreign countries.[a]
28 After that, they started to worship the false god, Baal of Peor.
They ate the food from sacrifices
    that people gave to dead idols.
29 The Lord became angry
    because of what his people did.
He sent a bad disease among them.

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  1. 106:27 See Numbers 13—14.

27 make their descendants fall among the nations
    and scatter(A) them throughout the lands.

28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor(B)
    and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
29 they aroused the Lord’s anger(C) by their wicked deeds,(D)
    and a plague(E) broke out among them.

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27 (A)To [a]overthrow their descendants among the [b]nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

28 (B)They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices [c]made to the dead.
29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.

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  1. Psalm 106:27 make their descendants fall also
  2. Psalm 106:27 Gentiles
  3. Psalm 106:28 offered