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And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and the people ¹profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab. ² And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols. ³ And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with lsrael. ⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and ²make them examples of judgment for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel. ⁵ And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor. ⁶ And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁷ And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a ³javelin in his hand, ⁸ and went in after the lsraelitish man into the ⁴chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. ⁹ And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel when I was exceedingly jealous ⁵among them, and

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I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. ¹² Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace: ¹³ and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. ¹⁴ Now tile name of the smitten Israelitish man who was smitten with the Madianitish woman, was Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon. ¹⁵ And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, was Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.

¹⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, speak to the children of Israel, saying, ¹⁷ Plague the Madianites as enemies, and smite them, ¹⁸ for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was smitten in the day of the plague because of Phogor.