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* And Israel remained in Shittim , and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab . * And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods , and the people ate and bowed down to their gods . * And Israel was joined to Baal-peor , and the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel . * And Jehovah said to Moses , Take all the heads of the people and hang them before Jehovah in broad daylight , that the burning anger of Jehovah 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 in to his brethren a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all the congregation of the children of Israel , who 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 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 . Thus the plague was stopped from the children of Israel . * And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand . * And Jehovah 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 jealousy . * Therefore say , Behold , I give to him My covenant of peace ; * and it shall be to him and his seed after him a covenant of a perpetual priesthood , because he was zealous for his God , and made atonement for the children of Israel . * Now the name of the man of Israel who was killed , who was killed with the Midianite woman , was Zimri the son of Salu , a ruler of a father ’s house of the Simeonites . * And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur ; he was head of a tribe of a father ’s house in Midian . * And Jehovah spoke to Moses , saying : * Strike to harass the Midianites ; * for they harassed you with their schemes by which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi , the daughter of a ruler of Midian , their sister , who was killed in the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor .

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