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25 : 1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
25 : 2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods.
25 : 3 So Israel joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And the LORD`s anger burned against them.
25 : 4 The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD`s fierce anger may turn away from Israel."
25 : 5 So Moses said to Israel`s judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor."
25 : 6 Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
25 : 7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand
25 : 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them--through the Israelite and into the woman`s body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;
25 : 9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
25 : 10 The LORD said to Moses,
25 : 11 Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them.
25 : 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him.
25 : 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."
25 : 14 The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
25 : 15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
25 : 16 The LORD said to Moses,
25 : 17 Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them,
25 : 18 because they treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the affair of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of Peor."