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Numbers

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 Baalpe­or: 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 Baalpe­or. 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.