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1 And Israel sojourned in Shittim, and the people profaned themselves by committing harlotry with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.
3 And Israel consecrated themselves to Baal of Peor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.
4 And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples [of judgment] for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Every one of you kill his friend that is consecrated to Baal of Peor.
6 And behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Midianite woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
7 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand,
8 and went in after the Israelite man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelite man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stopped from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
10 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused My wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in My jealousy.
12 Therefore say, Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace;
13 and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
14 Now the name of the smitten Israelite man, who was smitten with the Midianite woman, [was] Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Simeon.
15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was smitten, [was] Cozbi, daughter of Zur, a prince of the nation of Hommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Midian.
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
17 Harass the Midianites as enemies, and strike them,
18 for they are enemies to you by the treachery in which they ensnare you through Peor, and through Cozbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Midian, who was smitten in the day of the plague because of Peor.
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