Numbers:25

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* Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove , and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab . * They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods , and the people ate and bowed down to their gods . * So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor , and the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel . * Then the LORD said to Moses , "Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD , out in the sun , that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel ." * So Moses said to the judges of Israel , "Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor ." * And indeed , one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel , who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting . * Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest , saw it , he rose 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 body . So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel . * And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand . * Then the LORD spoke to Moses , saying : * "Phinehas the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest , has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel , because he was zealous with My zeal among them , so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal . * Therefore say , "Behold , I give to him My covenant of peace ; * and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood , because he was zealous for his God , and made atonement for the children of Israel ."' * Now the name of the Israelite who was killed , who was killed with the Midianite woman , was Zimri the son of Salu , a leader of a father 's house among the Simeonites . * And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur ; he was head of the people of a father 's house in Midian . * Then the LORD spoke to Moses , saying : * "Harass the Midianites , and attack them ; * for they harassed you with their schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi , the daughter of a leader of Midian , their sister , who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor ."

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