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¶ And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom
with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called the people
unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down
to their gods.
3 And Israel joined himself
unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. |
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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.
5 And Moses said unto the
judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. |
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¶ And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto
his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight
of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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;
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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.
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And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. |
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Those that died They would not have been spiritually ready to enter
the land of promise. |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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.
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Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
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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Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with
the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief
house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish
woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a
people, and of a chief house in Midian. |
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and
smite them:
18 For they vex you with their
wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the
matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which
was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. |
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