| 1 And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the
harlot with the daughters of Moab: 2 for 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 Jehovah
was kindled against Israel. 4 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the
chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the
fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto
the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves
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, while they were weeping at the
door of the tent of meeting. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the
son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the
congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 8 and he went after the man of
Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel,
and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of
Israel. 9 And those that died by the plague were twenty and four
thousand.
10 And Jehovah 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, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so
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 it shall be unto
him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood;
because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of
Israel.
14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with
the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers'
house among the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that
was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a
fathers' house in Midian.
16 And Jehovah 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 the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague
in the matter of Peor.
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