Num 25
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And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and the people Heb. llx to begin and to profane, etc. profaned itself by going a-whoring after
the daughters of Moab.
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And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their
sacrifices, and worshiped their idols.
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And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with
Israel.
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And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and Or, put them to shame; See Heb 6:6 make them examples
of judgement for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger
of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.
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And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay you every one his friend that is consecrated
to Beel-phegor.
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And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish
woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and
they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
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And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out
of the midst of the congregation, and took a Gr. dagger javelin in his hand,
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and went in after the Israelitish man into the Gr. furnace, kaminon; Trom. renders lupanar; Heb. hbqh chamber, and pierced
them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through
her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
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And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my anger to cease
from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous Or, with or against them; Hebraism among them, and I did not consume
the children of Israel in my jealousy.
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Thus do you say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:
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and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because
he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
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Now the name of the smitten Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Madianitish
woman, was Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon.
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And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, was Chasbi, daughter of Sur,
a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
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Plague the Madianites as enemies, and smite them,
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for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor,
and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was smitten in
the day of the plague because of Phogor.