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Numbers 25

About Numbers Numbers follows Israel's forty years in the wilderness, from Sinai to the edge of the promised land.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.SelectedNumbers 25:1Ask

And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.SelectedNumbers 25:2Ask

And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.SelectedNumbers 25:3Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:4Ask

And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.SelectedNumbers 25:5Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:6Ask

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;SelectedNumbers 25:7Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:8Ask

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.SelectedNumbers 25:9Ask

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedNumbers 25:10Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:11Ask

Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:SelectedNumbers 25:12Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:13Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:14Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:15Ask

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedNumbers 25:16Ask

Vex the Midianites, and smite them:SelectedNumbers 25:17Ask

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.SelectedNumbers 25:18Ask

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