Numbers 25
New International Version - Numbers 25 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 25:1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, 25:2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods. 25:3 So Israel joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And the Lord 's anger burned against them. 25:4 The Lord said to Moses, 'Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord , so that the Lord 's fierce anger may turn away from Israel.' 25:5 So Moses said to Israel's judges, 'Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor.' 25:6 Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 25:7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 25:8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them-through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; 25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. 25:10 The Lord said to Moses, 25:11 'Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them. 25:12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 25:13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.' 25:14 The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. 25:15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family. 25:16 The Lord said to Moses, 25:17 'Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them, 25:18 because they treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the affair of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of Peor.'