Numbers:25
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And Israel abode in Shittim ,
and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab .
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And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods :
and the people did eat ,
and bowed down to their gods .
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And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor :
and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Take all the heads of the people ,
and hang them up before the LORD against the sun ,
that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel .
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And Moses said unto the judges of Israel ,
Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor .
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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 ,
who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation .
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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 ;
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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 was stayed from the children of Israel .
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And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Phinehas ,
the son of Eleazar ,
the son of Aaron the priest ,
hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel ,
while he was zealous for my sake among them ,
that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy .
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Wherefore say ,
Behold ,
I give unto him my covenant of peace :
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And he shall have it ,
and his seed after him ,
even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ;
because he was zealous for his God ,
and made an atonement for the children of Israel .
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Now the name of the Israelite that was slain ,
even that was slain with the Midianitish woman ,
was Zimri ,
the son of Salu ,
a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites .
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And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi ,
the daughter of Zur ;
he was head over a people ,
and of a chief house in Midian .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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Vex the Midianites ,
and smite them :
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For they vex 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 ,
which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor '
s sake .