Numbers:25

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* And Israel lived in Shittim . And the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab . * And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods . And the people ate and bowed themselves to their gods . * And Israel was joined to Baal-peor , and the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel . * And Jehovah said to Moses , Take all the leaders 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 , Each one of you kill his men , those who joined to Baal-peor . * And , behold ! A man of the sons of Israel came and brought in to his brothers a woman of Midian , before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all the congregation of the sons of Israel weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation . * And Phinehas , the son of Eleazar . the son of Aaron the priest , saw . And he rose from amidst the congregation and took a javelin in his hand , * and went in after the man of Israel , into the tent room . And he pierced both of them through , the man of Israel and the woman , through her belly . So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel . * And those that died by the plague were twenty four thousand . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * Phinehas the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest , has turned My wrath away from the sons of Israel while he was zealous for My sake among them , so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in My jealousy . * Therefore say , behold , I give to him My covenant of peace ; * And it shall be to him , and to his seed after him , the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God , and atone for the sons of Israel . * And the name of the man of Israel who was smitten , who was struck with the woman of Midian , was Zimri , the son of Salu , ruler of a father 's house of the Simeonites . * And the name of the woman who was struck , the woman of Midian , was Cozbi , the daughter of Zur ; he was head of the people of a father 's house in Midian . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying , * Vex the Midianites ; and you shall strike them ; * For they are vexers to you , because of the wiles with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor , and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of a ruler of Midian , their sister , who was struck in the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor .

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