Numbers 25:2

25:2 These women invited ¹  the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods. ² 

Numbers 25:5

25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you must execute those of his men ³  who were joined to Baal-peor.”

[25:2]  ¹ tn The verb simply says “they called,” but it is a feminine plural. And so the women who engaged in immoral acts with Hebrew men invited them to their temple ritual.

[25:2]  ² sn What Israel experienced here was some of the debased ritual practices of the Canaanite people. The act of prostrating themselves before the pagan deities was probably participation in a fertility ritual, nothing short of cultic prostitution. This was a blatant disregard of the covenant and the Law. If something were not done, the nation would have destroyed itself.

[25:5]  ³ tn Heb “slay – a man his men.” The imperative is plural, and so “man” is to be taken collectively as “each of you men.”