{"book":"Numbers","slug":"numbers","ch":25,"genre":"prose","sub":"Numbers","prev":"numbers/24","next":"numbers/26","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,","f":["Or Acacia Grove"],"h":"Moab Seduces Israel","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against [them].","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"Then the LORD said to Moses,“ Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that [His] fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"So Moses told the judges of Israel,“ Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":6,"t":"Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses [and] the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.","f":[],"h":"The Zeal of Phinehas","style":"reg"},{"v":7,"t":"On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove [the spear] through both of them — through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"","t":"followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove [the spear] through both of them — through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman."},{"style":"reg","t":"So the plague against the Israelites was halted,"}],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"Then the LORD said to Moses,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"“ Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous [for My sake] among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.","f":[]},{"v":12,"t":"Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.","f":[]},{"v":13,"t":"It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”","f":[]},{"v":14,"t":"The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":15,"t":"And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.","f":[]},{"v":16,"t":"And the LORD said to Moses,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"“ Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.","f":[]},{"v":18,"t":"For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, [the woman] who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”","f":[]}]}