“warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded 9) “Moses; and they slew every male.... And “the children of Israel took captive the women “of Midian and their little ones; and all their 14) “cattle, etc.... And Moses was wroth with 15) “the officers of the host, ... and Moses said “unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16) “_Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through “the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against “the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so the plague 17) “was among the congregation of the Lord._ Now “therefore kill every male among the little ones, “and kill _every woman that hath known man by 18) “lying with him_. But all the women children, “that have _not_ known man by lying with him, 19) “keep alive for yourselves. And encamp ye “without the camp seven days: whosoever hath “killed any person, and whosoever hath touched “any slain, purify yourselves on the third day “and on the seventh day, ye and your captives. 20) “And as to every garment, and all that is made “of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all “things made of wood, ye shall purify yourselves. 21) “And Eleazar the priest said unto the “men of war which went to the battle, This is the “statute of the law which the Lord hath commanded 22) “Moses: howbeit the gold, and the 23) “silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the “lead, every thing that may abide the fire, ye “shall make to go through the fire, and it shall “be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with “the water of separation (impurity): and all that “abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through 24) “the water. And ye shall wash your clothes “on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, “and afterward ye shall come into the camp.” Besides these passages in the Books of Moses we find the plague of Baal-Peor further mentioned in the following places in the Old Testament: _Joshua_, Ch. 22. v. 17: “Is the iniquity of “Peor too little for us, _from which we have not “cleansed ourselves unto this day_, although there “came a plague upon the congregation of the “Lord?” _Psalm_ 106. verses 28-30.: “They joined “themselves also unto Baal-Peor, and ate the 29) “sacrifices of the dead (idols). Thus they “provoked him to anger with their doings; and 30) “the plague brake in upon them. Then stood “up Phinehas, and executed judgement: and “so the plague was stayed.” _Hosea_, Ch. 9. v. 10.: “I found Israel like “grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers “as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first “season; but they came to Baal peor, and “consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, “and became abominable like that which they “loved.”