5 Then Moses said to the judges of Israel:+ “Each one of you should kill his men who joined in worship of* the Baʹal of Peʹor.”+

9 Those who died from the scourge amounted to 24,000.+

10 “Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel.+

Like the first of the early figs on a fig tree I saw your forefathers.

7 Neither become idolaters, as some of them did; just as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to have a good time.”+ 8 Neither let us practice sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, only to fall, 23,000 of them in one day.+