Bible, King James Version
Numbers
Num.25
[1] And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to
commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
[2] And they called the people unto the sacrifices of
their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their
gods.
[3] And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the
anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
[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.
[5] And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye
every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
[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.
[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;
[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.
[9] And those that died in the plague were twenty and four
thousand.
[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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