You Shall Have No Other God Before Me, A Study of Numbers 25-26.

Numbers 25:1-3 Numbers 26:1-2 Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab. And it came to pass, after the plague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying: They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel from twenty years old and above, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel.” So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel.