4 Hence Jehovah said to Moses: “Take all the head ones* of the people and expose* them to Jehovah+ toward the sun, that the burning anger of Jehovah may turn back from Israel.”

3 “YOUR own eyes are the ones that saw what Jehovah did in the case of the Baʹal of Peʹor,*+ that every man who walked after the Baʹal of Peʹor was the one whom Jehovah your God annihilated from your midst.+

8 Neither let us practice fornication, as some of them committed fornication,+ only to fall, twenty-three thousand [of them] in one day.+