~Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began toplay the harlot with the daughters of Moab:
~Numbers 25:2 for they called the people unto the sacrifices of theirgods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
~Numbers 25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and theanger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
~Numbers 25:4 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs ofthe people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that thefierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.
~Numbers 25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay yeevery one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.
~Numbers 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came andbrought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses,and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, whilethey were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
~Numbers 25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son ofAaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of thecongregation, and took a spear in his hand;
~Numbers 25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion,and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the womanthrough her body. So the plague was stayed from the children ofIsrael.
~Numbers 25:9 And those that died by the plague were twenty andfour thousand.
~Numbers 25:10 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
~Numbers 25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron thepriest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in thathe was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed notthe children of Israel in my jealousy.
~Numbers 25:12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him mycovenant of peace:
~Numbers 25:13 and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him,the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous forhis God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
~Numbers 25:14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain,who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son ofSalu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
~Numbers 25:15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that wasslain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of afathers' house in Midian.
~Numbers 25:16 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
~Numbers 25:17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them;
~Numbers 25:18 for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith theyhave 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 onthe day of the plague in the matter of Peor
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