Numbers:25

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* And Israel abode in Shittim , and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab , * who called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods ; and the people ate and bowed down to their gods . * And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor ; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel . * And the LORD said unto Moses , Take all the princes of the people and disjoint them before the LORD [hanging them from a tree ] against the sun , that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel . * Then Moses said unto the judges of Israel , Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor . * Then , behold , one of the sons of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel , who [were ] weeping [before ] the door of the tabernacle of the testimony . * And when Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest , saw [it ], he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand ; * and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through , the man of Israel and the woman through her belly . So the plague of the sons of Israel was stayed . * And those that died in that plague were twenty-four thousand . * Then the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest , has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel , being zealous for my sake among them , therefore I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy . * Because of this say [unto them ], Behold , I establish my covenant of peace with him ; * and he shall have , and his seed after him , [even ] the covenant of the everlasting priesthood because he was zealous for his God and reconciled the sons of Israel . * Now the name of the Israelite that was slain , [even ] that was slain with the Midianite , [was ] Zimri , the son of Salu , a prince of a family of the tribe of Simeon . * And the name of the Midianite woman that was slain [was ] Cozbi , the daughter of Zur , prince of peoples , [of the ] house of [the ] father , in Midian . * And the LORD spoke unto Moses , saying , * Declare war on the Midianites and smite them ; * for they treated you as enemies with their wiles , with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor , and in the matter of Cozbi , daughter of the prince of Midian , their sister , who was slain in the day of the plague for Peor 's sake .:

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