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The Sin of Peor |
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| Numbers 25:1 |
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While Israel remained at Shittim, the people
began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. |
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| Numbers 25:2 |
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For they invited the people to the sacrifices
of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. |
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| Numbers 25:3 |
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So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor,
and the LORD was angry against Israel. |
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| Numbers 25:4 |
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The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders
of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the
fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel." |
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| Numbers 25:5 |
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So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each
of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor." |
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| Numbers 25:6 |
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Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came
and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the
sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at
the doorway of the tent of meeting. |
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| Numbers 25:7 |
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When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took
a spear in his hand, |
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| Numbers 25:8 |
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and he went after the man of Israel into the
tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through
the body. So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked. |
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| Numbers 25:9 |
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Those who died by the plague were 24,000. |
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The Zeal of Phinehas |
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| Numbers 25:10 |
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| Numbers 25:11 |
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"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron
the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous
with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My
jealousy. |
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| Numbers 25:12 |
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Therefore say, 'Behold, I give him My covenant
of peace; |
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| Numbers 25:13 |
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and it shall be for him and his descendants
after him, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his
God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.'" |
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| Numbers 25:14 |
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Now the name of the slain man of Israel who
was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father's
household among the Simeonites. |
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| Numbers 25:15 |
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The name of the Midianite woman who was slain
was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was head of the people of a father's household
in Midian. |
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| Numbers 25:16 |
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| Numbers 25:17 |
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"Be hostile to the Midianites and strike them; |
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| Numbers 25:18 |
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for they have been hostile to you with their
tricks, with which they have deceived you in the affair of Peor and in the affair
of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was slain on
the day of the plague because of Peor." |
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