Numbers 25:16
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers 25:3
And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
Numbers 25:4
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.
Numbers 25:5
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
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Numbers 25:7
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;
Numbers 25:8
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.
Numbers 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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Numbers 25:10
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 25:11
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.
Numbers 25:12
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
Numbers 25:13
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.
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