and said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight, and then I will no longer be angry with the people."

Moses said to the officials, "Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor."

The number of people who died was 14,700, not counting those who died in Korah's rebellion.

When the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent.

You yourselves saw what the LORD did at Mount Peor. He destroyed everyone who worshiped Baal there,

but those of you who were faithful to the LORD your God are still alive today.

We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were---and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.