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 down to their gods . * And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor . And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel . * And the LORD said to Moses , Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the LORD against the sun , so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel . * And Moses said to the judges of Israel , Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal-peor . * And behold ! One of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a woman of Midian , before the eyes of Moses , and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel , who [were ] weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation . * 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 spear in his hand . * And he went after the man of Israel into the tent , and 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 in the plague were twenty-four thousand . * And the LORD 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 destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy . * Therefore say , Behold ! I give him My covenant of peace . * And he shall have it , and his seed after him , the covenant of an everlasting priesthood , because he was zealous for his God , and made an atonement for the sons of Israel . * And the name of the Israelite who was killed , he who was struck with the woman of Midian , [was ] Zimri , the son of Salu , ruler of a chief house of the Simeonites . * And the Midianite woman 's name who was killed [was ] Cosbi , the daughter of Zur . He was head over a people , and of a chief house in Midian . * And the LORD spoke to Moses saying , * Trouble the Midianites and strike them . * For they trouble you with their lies , with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor , and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of a ruler of Midian , their sister , who was stricken in the day of the plague because of Peor .

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