24:25. And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.
Numbers Chapter 25
The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four thousand are slain. The zeal of Phinees.
25:1. And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,
25:2. Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.
25:3. And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,
Initiated to Beelphegor… That is, they took to the worship of Beelphegor, an obscene idol of the Moabites, and were consecrated, as it were, to him.
25:4. Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.
25:5. And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
25:6. And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.