28 They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.[a](A)

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  1. 106:28 Lit sacrifices for dead ones

Ephraim Bereaved of Offspring

10 I discovered Israel
like grapes in the wilderness.(A)
I saw your ancestors
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.(B)
But they went to Baal-peor,(C)
consecrated themselves to Shame,[a](D)
and became abhorrent,(E)
like the thing they loved.

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  1. 9:10 = Baal

Let us not commit sexual immorality(A) as some of them did,[a] and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.(B)

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  1. 10:8 Lit them committed sexual immorality

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