NU-25:1  And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to

commit whoredom

with the daughters of Moab.

NU-25:2  And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their

gods: and the

people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

NU-25:3  And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger

of the LORD

was kindled against Israel.

NU-25:4  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.

NU-25:5  And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every

one his men

that were joined unto Baalpeor.

NU-25:6  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.

NU-25:7  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;

NU-25:8  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.

NU-25:9  And those that died in the plague were twenty and four

thousand.

NU-25:10  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-25:11  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.

NU-25:12  Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of

peace:

NU-25:13  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.

NU-25:14  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.

NU-25:15  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.

NU-25:16  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-25:17  Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

NU-25:18  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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