1. Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

2. for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

3. Israel joined himself to Baal Peor. The LORD's anger burned against Israel.

They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the MOABITES, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away. Hushim and Baara were his wives.

1. Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the MOABITES, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

2. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass."

In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;