Numbers 25:1WEB
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
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Numbers 25:1WEB
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
Numbers 25:2WEB
for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Numbers 25:3WEB
Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 25:4WEB
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.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 25:5WEB
Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
Numbers 25:6WEB
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 25:7WEB
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 25:8WEB
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 25:9WEB
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Numbers 25:10WEB
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 25:11WEB
“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 25:12WEB
Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.
Numbers 25:13WEB
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.’”
Numbers 25:14WEB
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 25:15WEB
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 25:16WEB
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 25:17WEB
“Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
Numbers 25:18WEB
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.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.