Numbers 25

1Now Israel remained in Sattin, and the people were defiled by committing fornication with the daughters of Moab.

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2They invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate their sacrifices and worshiped their idols.

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3So Israel consecrated themselves to Baal of Peor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

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4Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Take all the rulers of the people and make a public example of them for the Lord, that the anger of the Lord's wrath may be turned away from Israel.'

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5So Moses said to the tribes of Israel, 'Each one of you kill any member of his household who was consecrated to Baal of Peor.'

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6Now behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of testimony.

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7Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he rose from among the congregation; and taking a spear in his hand,

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8he went after the man of Israel into the chambers and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her womb. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

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9But those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

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10Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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11'Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, stopped My wrath from among the children of Israel when he was zealous with My zeal among them. So I did not utterly destroy the children of Israel in My zeal.

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12Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace;

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13and there shall be to him and his seed after him a covenant of an eternal priesthood; because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the children of Israel.' '

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14Now the name of the man of Israel who was struck down together with the Midianite woman was Zimri the son of Salu, the ruler of a house of a Simeonite family.

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15The name of the Midianite woman who was struck down was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, the ruler of the nation of Ommoth, of the house of a Midianite family.

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16Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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17'Be at enmity with the Midianites and strike them;

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18for they themselves are at enmity with you in their deceit, inasmuch as they dealt treacherously with you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a ruler of Midian, their sister, who was struck down in the day of the plague because of Peor.'

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