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* And Israel abode in Shittim ; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab . * And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods ; and the people ate , and bowed down to their gods . * And Israel joined himself to Baal-Peor ; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel . * And Jehovah said to Moses , Take all the heads of the people , and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun , that the fierce anger of Jehovah may be turned away from Israel . * And Moses said to the judges of Israel , Slay every one his men that have joined themselves to Baal-Peor . * And behold , a man of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianitish woman to his brethren , in the sight of Moses , and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel , who were weeping before the entrance of the tent of meeting . * And Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest , saw it , and rose up from among the assembly , and took a javelin in his hand , * and he went after the man of Israel into the tent-chamber , and thrust both of them through , the man of Israel and the woman through her belly . And the plague was stayed from the children of Israel . * And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest , hath turned my wrath 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 . * Therefore say , Behold , I give unto him my covenant of peace ! * And he shall have it , and 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 . * And the name of the man of Israel that was slain , who was slain with the Midianitish woman , was Zimri , the son of Salu , the prince of a father 's house of the Simeonites . * And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi , the daughter of Zur ; he was tribal head of a father 's house in Midian . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * Harass the Midianites , and smite them , * for they have harassed you with their wiles , wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor , and in the matter of Cozbi , the daughter of a prince of Midian , their sister , who was slain on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor .

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