He asked them, "Why have you kept all the women alive?

Remember that it was the women who followed Balaam's instructions and at Peor led the people to be unfaithful to the LORD. That was what brought the epidemic on the LORD's people.

"What have you done to us?" Abimelech said. "One of my men might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have been responsible for our guilt."

He said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?"

So the LORD sent a disease on the people, because they had caused Aaron to make the gold bull-calf.

But there are a few things I have against you: there are some among you who follow the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak how to lead the people of Israel into sin by persuading them to eat food that had been offered to idols and to practice sexual immorality.

The LORD God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."

I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ---in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies.

They want to look for nothing but the chance to commit adultery; their appetite for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into a trap. Their hearts are trained to be greedy. They are under God's curse!

They have left the straight path and have lost their way; they have followed the path taken by Balaam son of Beor, who loved the money he would get for doing wrong

They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.