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Numbers 25 📜 📕 ↷
Moab Seduces Israel
1 AND Israel at that time abode in Setim, and the people fornicated with the daughters of Moab,📜💬📚
2 who called them to their sacrifices. And they did eat and adore their gods.📜💬📚
3 And Israel was professed to Beelphegor, and our Lord being angry,📜💬📚
4 said to Moyses: Take all the Princes of the people, and hang them up against the sun on gibbets: that my fury may be averted from Israel.📜💬📚
5 And Moyses said to the Judges of Israel: Kill every man his neighbours, that are professed to Beelphegor.📜💬📚
Zeal of Phinehas
6 And behold one of the children of Israel entered in before the face of his brethren to a whore a Madianite in the sight of Moyses, and of all the multitude of the children of Israel, who wept before the doors of the tabernacle.📜💬📚
7 Which thing when Phinees had seen the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the Priest, he arose out of the midst of the multitude, and catching a dagger📜💬📚
8 went in after the man of Israel into the brothel house, and thrust them through both together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genitals. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel,📜💬📚
9 and there were slain four and twenty thousand men.📜💬📚
10 And our Lord said to Moyses:📜💬📚
11 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the Priest hath averted my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that my self might not destroy the children of Israel in mine own zeal.📜💬📚
12 Therefore speak to him: Behold I give him the peace of my covenant,📜💬📚
13 and there shall be as well to him as to his seed the covenant of priesthood for ever, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath expiated the wicked fact of the children of Israel.📜💬📚
14 And the name of the man of Israel, that was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a Prince of the kindred and tribe of Simeon.📜💬📚
15 Moreover the Madianess that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur a most noble Prince of the Madianites.📜💬📚
16 And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:📜💬📚
17 Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and strike you them:📜💬📚
18 Because they also have done like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor and Cozbi the daughter of the Duke of Madian their sister, who was strucken in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.📜💬📚
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