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25:1  While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to have immoral sexual relations with women from Moab.
25:2  Then they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, so the people were eating, and bowing down before their gods.
25:3  When Israel became bound to Baal of Peor, the anger of Adonai grew hot against Israel.
25:4  Adonai said to Moses, “Seize all the ringleaders and hang them before Adonai facing the sun, so that Adonai’s fierce anger may be turned away from Israel.”
25:5  So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you, kill your men who have been joining themselves to Baal of Peor.”
25:6  Then behold, a man from Bnei-Yisrael came and brought a Midianite woman to his brothers before the eyes of Moses and of the whole assembly of Bnei-Yisrael, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting!
25:7  When Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the kohen saw it, he arose from the midst of the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
25:8  and went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced them through—both the Israelite man and the woman’s belly. Then the plague among Bnei-Yisrael was stopped.
25:9  However, 24,000 were dead because of the plague!
25:10  Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
25:11  “Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the kohen has turned away My anger from Bnei-Yisrael because he was very zealous for Me among them, so that I did not put an end to Bnei-Yisrael in My zeal.
25:12  So now say: See, I am making with him a covenant of shalom!
25:13  It will be for him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood—because he was zealous for his God and atoned for Bnei-Yisrael.”
25:14  The name of the Israelite man killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a prince of a Simeonite ancestral household.
25:15  The name of the executed Midianite woman was Cozbi, daughter of Zur—he was a tribal head of an ancestral house in Midian.
25:16  Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
25:17  “Deal with the Midianites as enemies and strike them.
25:18  For they have been enemies to you in their deceptions of you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite prince, their sister who was slain on the day of the plague on account of the Peor incident.”