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Numbers 25
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- And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to
commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
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- And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their
gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
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- And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger
of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
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- 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.
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- And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every
one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
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- 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.
- 7
- 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;
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- 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.
- 9
- And those that died in the plague were twenty and four
thousand.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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- 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.
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- Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of
peace:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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- Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
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- 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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