Numbers 25:16
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Numbers 25:6
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.
Numbers 25:14
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.
Numbers 25:15
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.
Numbers 25:16
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 25:17
“Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
Numbers 25:18
for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding 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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Numbers 22:4
Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
Numbers 22:7
The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
Numbers 31:1
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 31:2
“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
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Numbers 25:1
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
Numbers 25:3
Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.
Numbers 25:4
Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
Numbers 25:5
Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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Numbers 25:7
When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.
Numbers 25:8
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 stopped among the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:9
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Numbers 25:10
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 25:11
“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.
Numbers 25:12
Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.
Numbers 25:13
It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”
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