| Chapter
25 |
| 1 | And
Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the
daughters of Moab. |
| 2 | And
they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did
eat, and bowed down to their gods. |
|
3 | And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger 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 fierce anger of the LORD
may be turned away from Israel. |
| 5
| And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men
that were joined unto Baalpeor. |
| 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 were weeping 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 among the congregation, and took a javelin in his
hand; |
| 8 | And he went after
the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of
Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the
children of Israel. |
| 9 | And
those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. |
| 10 | And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, |
| 11 | Phinehas, the
son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the
children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I
consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. |
|
12 | Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my
covenant of peace: |
| 13 |
And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an
everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an
atonement for the children of Israel. |
| 14 | Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that
was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a
chief house among the Simeonites. |
|
15 | And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi,
the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in
Midian. |
| 16 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 17 |
Vex the Midianites, and smite them: |
| 18 | For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have
beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of
a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for
Peor's sake. |
