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And Israel abode in
Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom
with the daughters of Moab.
02 And they called the people unto the
sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat,
and bowed down to their gods.
03 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor:
and the anger of the Lord was kindled against
Israel.
04 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.
05 And Moses said unto the judges of
Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were
joined unto Baalpeor.
06 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.
07 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;
08 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.
09 And those that died in the plague were
twenty and four thousand.
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10 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
11 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.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him
my covenant of peace:
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
18 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.
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