BaMidbar 25:18

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18 כי צררים הם לכם בנכליהם אשר־נכלו לכם על־דבר־פעור ועל־דבר כזבי בת־נשיא מדין אחתם המכה ביום־המגפה על־דבר־פעור׃


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 18. Because it is aggravating and deceitful, especially in making external worship alone or from selfish motives, appear to be lawful, and still more in promoting deceit, and in violating the heavenly marriage, through the abuse of intellectual truth by falsifications, and by the destruction of remains, when corrupted worship is confirmed as true.