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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The people joined the Baal-peor cult. As a result, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4so the LORD told Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight for the LORD, so the LORD's burning anger may be withdrawn from Israel." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then Moses ordered the judges of Israel, "Each one of you is to execute the men in his own tribe who joined the Baal-peor cult." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6That very moment, one of the Israelis arrived, bringing to his brothers one of the Midianite women, right in front of Moses and the entire community of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When Eleazar's son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up from the middle of the community, grabbed a javelin in his hand, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8followed the Israeli man inside his tent, and impaled the two of them—the Israeli man and the woman—right through both of them and into her abdomen. Then the plague infecting the Israelis was brought to a halt. Nevertheless, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 924,000 people died because of the plague. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The LORD told Moses, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Eleazar's son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from Israel. Because his zealousness reflected my own zeal for them, I didn't consume Israel in my jealousy. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore, I'm certainly going to be giving him my covenant of peace, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13for him and for his descendants after him, too, a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelis." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Now the name of the Israeli man who was slain, along with the Midianite woman, was Salu's son Zimri, a leader from the tribe of Simeon. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The woman who was slain, that is, the Midianite woman, was named Cozbi. She was the daughter of Zur, a leader of one of the ancestral houses of Midian. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Later, the LORD ordered Moses, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Attack the Midianites and execute them, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18because they've acted deceitfully, bringing trouble to you in this incident at Peor with Cozbi, daughter of a prince from Midian, who was killed during the plague that came about because of the incident at Peor." |
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