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And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit··harlotry with the daughters of Moab .
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And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods ; and the people did eat , and bowed ··down to their gods .
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And Israel knotted· himself ·together to Baal-peor ; and the anger of Jehovah was··fierce against◦ Israel .
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And Jehovah said to▵ Moses , Take all the head men of the people, and hang· them ·up before▫ Jehovah in··front··of the sun , that the fierce anger of Jehovah may be turned ··back from Israel .
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And Moses said to▵ the judges of Israel , Kill ye each··man ◦ his men ◦ who were knotted··together to Baal-peor .
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And, behold, a man ◦ of the sons of Israel came and offered to▵ his brothers a Midianitish woman in the eyes of Moses , and in the eyes of all the congregation of the sons of Israel , and they◦ were weeping before the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation ◦.
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And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and he rose ··up from the midst of the congregation , and took a lance in his hand ;
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and he came after the man ◦ of Israel into▵ the place··of··scortation, and thrust· the two of them ·through, the man ◦ of Israel , and the woman for◦ her scortation. And the striking* was restrained from on the sons of Israel .
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And those who died in the striking were four and twenty thousand .
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And Jehovah spoke to▵ Moses , saying,
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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned ··back My fury from upon the sons of Israel , when he was zealous in My zeal in the midst of them, and I consumed· not ·all of the sons of Israel in My zeal .
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Therefore say , Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace ;
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and it shall be for him, and for his seed after him, even the covenant of an eternal priesthood ; that he was··zealous for his God , and made··atonement for▵ the sons of Israel .
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And the name of the man ◦ of Israel smitten , who was smitten with◦ the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of a house of a father of◦ the Simeonites.
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And the name of the Midianitish woman who was smitten was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he◦ was head over a people◦, the house of a father in Midian .
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And Jehovah spoke to▵ Moses , saying,
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Be··an··adversary against the Midianite, and smite them;
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for they◦ were adversaries to you with their plots, with which they plotted against▵ you over the matter of Peor, and over the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a chief of Midian , their sister , who was smitten in the day of the striking on··account··of the matter of Peor.