Professor Dennis Olson of Princeton Theological Seminary noted parallels between the incident at Baal-Peor in and the incident of the Golden Calf in as each story contrasts God's working to ensure a relationship with Israel while Israel rebels. Olson noted these similarities: (1) In both stories, the people worship and make sacrifices to another god. (2) Both stories involve foreigners, in the Egyptians' gold for the calf and the women of Moab and Midian. (3) In the aftermath of the Golden Calf story in God commands the Israelites to avoid what happens in making a covenant with the inhabitants, eating their sacrifices, and taking wives from among them who would make the Israelites' sons bow to their gods. displays this intermingling of sex and the worship of foreign gods, using the same Hebrew word, zanah, in (4) The Levites kill 3,000 of those guilty of worshiping the Golden Calf, and the Israelite leaders are instructed to kill the people who had yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. (5) Because of their obedience in carrying out God's punishment on the idolaters, the Levites are ordained for the service of God, and in the priest Phinehas executes God's punishment on the sinners, and a special covenant of perpetual priesthood is established with him. (6) After the Golden Calf incident, Moses makes atonement for Israel, and in the Baal Peor episode, Phinehas makes atonement for Israel. (7) A plague is sent as punishment in both incidents.