Numbers:25

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* And Israel abode in Shittim , and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab . * And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods ; and the people did eat , and bowed down to their gods . * And Israel joined himself unto the Baal of Peor ; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel . * And the LORD said unto Moses : 'Take all the chiefs of the people , and hang them up unto the LORD in face of the sun , that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel .' * And Moses said unto the judges of Israel : 'Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto the Baal of Peor .' * And , behold , one of the children of Israel came and brought unto 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 . * 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 . * And he went after the man of Israel into the chamber , and thrust both of them through , the man of Israel , and the woman through her belly . So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel . * And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand . * And the LORD spoke unto 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 very jealous for My sake among them , so that I consumed not the children of Israel in My jealousy . * Wherefore say : Behold , I give unto him My covenant of peace ; * and it shall be unto 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 .' * 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 . * 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 . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying : * 'Harass the Midianites , and smite them ; * for they harass you , by 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 .'

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