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Numbers 25:2

And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

KJV

quæ vocaverunt eos ad sacrificia sua. At ille comederunt et adoraverunt deos earum.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐκάλεσαν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ ταῖς θυσίαις τῶν εἰδώλων αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔφαγεν ὁ λαὸς τῶν θυσιῶν αὐτῶν καὶ προσεκύνησαν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν,

LXX

for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

ASV

וַ/תִּקְרֶ֣אןָ לָ/עָ֔ם לְ/זִבְחֵ֖י אֱלֹהֵי/הֶ֑ן וַ/יֹּ֣אכַל הָ/עָ֔ם וַ/יִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּ֖וּ לֵֽ/אלֹהֵי/הֶֽן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

זֶ֣בַח
zbch
noun · 160×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
יִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ
yshtchv
verb · 174×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
ם
m
verb · 811×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 8:1 — Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
  • 1Cor 10:20 — But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
  • 1Kgs 11:1 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
  • Dan 3:2 — Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to co
  • Deut 9:7 — Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been reb
  • Exod 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them th
  • Exod 22:20 — He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
  • Exod 32:6 — And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
  • Exod 34:15 — Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
  • Exod 34:15 — Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
  • Ezek 18:6 — And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
  • Hos 9:10 — I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abom
  • Josh 22:17 — Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
  • Ps 106:28 — They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
  • Rev 2:14 — But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed u