everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.
6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a
Midianite 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 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 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. 10 Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron
the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he
was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the
children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Therefore say, Behold, I give to him
my covenant of peace: 13 and it shall be to 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 Midianite woman, was
Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.
15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter
of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian. 16 Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and strike them; 18 for
they vex you with their wiles, with which they have deceived 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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