Numbers 25:1

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Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Shittim was Israel’s final campsite east of the Jordan, in Moab’s plains near Mount Peor. There Moabite and Midianite women drew Israelites into sexual immorality and Baal-Peor worship, provoking the covenant judgment described in the passage’s wider context.

Places in this passage

Numbers 25:1 mentions Midian, Moab, Peor and Shittim.