25:1 While
Israel
lived
in
Shittim,
the
people
began
to
whore
with
the
daughters
of
Moab.
25:2 These
invited
the
people
to
the
sacrifices
of
their
gods,
and
the
people
ate
and
bowed
down
to
their
gods.
25:3 So
Israel
yoked
himself
to
Baal
of
Peor.
And
the
anger
of
the
LORD
was
kindled
against
Israel.
25:4 And
the
LORD
said
to
Moses,
"Take
all
the
chiefs
of
the
people
and
hang
them
in
the
sun
before
the
LORD,
that
the
fierce
anger
of
the
LORD
may
turn
away
from
Israel."
25:5 And
Moses
said
to
the
judges
of
Israel,
"Each
of
you
kill
those
of
his
men
who
have
yoked
themselves
to
Baal
of
Peor."
25:6 And
behold,
one
of
the
people
of
Israel
came
and
brought
a
Midianite
woman
to
his
family,
in
the
sight
of
Moses
and
in
the
sight
of
the
whole
congregation
of
the
people
of
Israel,
while
they
were
weeping
in
the
entrance
of
the
tent
of
meeting.
25:7 When
Phinehas
the
son
of
Eleazar,
son
of
Aaron
the
priest,
saw
it,
he
rose
and
left
the
congregation
and
took
a
spear
in
his
hand
25:8 and
went
after
the
man
of
Israel
into
the
chamber
and
pierced
both
of
them,
the
man
of
Israel
and
the
woman
through
her
belly.
Thus
the
plague
on
the
people
of
Israel
was
stopped.
25:9 Nevertheless,
those
who
died
by
the
plague
were
twenty-four
thousand.
25:10 And
the
LORD
said
to
Moses,
25:11 "Phinehas
the
son
of
Eleazar,
son
of
Aaron
the
priest,
has
turned
back
my
wrath
from
the
people
of
Israel,
in
that
he
was
jealous
with
my
jealousy
among
them,
so
that
I
did
not
consume
the
people
of
Israel
in
my
jealousy.
25:12 Therefore
say,
'Behold,
I
give
to
him
my
covenant
of
peace,
25:13 and
it
shall
be
to
him
and
to
his
descendants
after
him
the
covenant
of
a
perpetual
priesthood,
because
he
was
jealous
for
his
God
and
made
atonement
for
the
people
of
Israel.'"
25:14 The
name
of
the
slain
man
of
Israel,
who
was
killed
with
the
Midianite
woman,
was
Zimri
the
son
of
Salu,
chief
of
a
father's
house
belonging
to
the
Simeonites.
25:15 And
the
name
of
the
Midianite
woman
who
was
killed
was
Cozbi
the
daughter
of
Zur,
who
was
the
tribal
head
of
a
father's
house
in
Midian.
25:16 And
the
LORD
spoke
to
Moses,
saying,
25:17 "Harass
the
Midianites
and
strike
them
down,
25:18 for
they
have
harassed
you
with
their
wiles,
with
which
they
beguiled
you
in
the
matter
of
Peor,
and
in
the
matter
of
Cozbi,
the
daughter
of
the
chief
of
Midian,
their
sister,
who
was
killed
on
the
day
of
the
plague
on
account
of
Peor."