Numbers Chapter 25

Numbers Chapter 25
1 Now whiles Israel abode in Shittim,
the people began to commit whoredom
with the daughters of Moab:
2 Which called the people unto the
sacrifice of their gods, and the people
ate, and bowed down to their gods.
3 And Israel coupled himself unto Baal
Peor: wherefore the wrath of the Lord
was kindled against Israel:
4 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 indignation of the Lord’s wrath
may be turned from Israel.
5 Then Moses said unto the Judges of
Israel, Every one slay his men that were
joined unto Baal Peor.
6 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 wept 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 the midst of the
congregation, and took a spear in his
hand, 8 And followed the man of Israel
into the tent, and thrust them both
through: to wit, the man of Israel, and the
woman, through her belly: so the plague
ceased from the children of Israel.
9 And there died in that plague, four and
twenty thousand.
10 Then the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
11 Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son
of Aaron the priest, hath turned mine
anger away from the children of Israel,
while he was zealous for my sake among
them: therefore I have not consumed the
children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say to him, Behold, I give
unto him my covenant of peace, 13 And
he shall have it, and his seed after him,
even the covenant of the priest’s office
forever, because he was zealous for his
God, and hath made an atonement for the
children of Israel.
14 And the name of the Israelite thus
slain, which was killed with the
Midianitish woman, was Zimri the son
of Salu, prince of the family of the
Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish
woman, that was slain, was Cozbi the
daughter of Zur, who was head over the
people of his father’s house in Midian.
16 Again the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
18 For they trouble you with their wiles,
wherewith they have beguiled you as
concerning Peor, and as concerning their
sister Cozbi the daughter of a prince of
Midian, which was slain in the day of
the plague because of Peor.