Num 25
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And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters
of Moab:
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for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat,
and bowed down to their gods.
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And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor: and the anger of YHWH was kindled against
Israel.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to YHWH
before the sun, that the fierce anger of YHWH may turn away from Israel.
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And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay you every one his men that have joined
themselves to Baal-peor.
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And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianitish
woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children
of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
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And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose
up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;
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and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through,
the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the
children of Israel.
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And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away
from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so
that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
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Wherefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:
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and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting
priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children
of Israel.
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Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish
woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers` house among the Simeonites.
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And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur;
he was head of the people of a fathers` house in Midian.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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Vex the Midianites, and smite them;
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for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter
of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister,
who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.