THE FOURTH BOOK OF
MOSES,
called
N U M B E R S
Numbers 25 ©
The Israelites commit whoredom at Shittim with the daughters of the Moabites, and idolatry with Baal-peor, v. 1, etc. The LORD commands Moses to put the idolaters to death, 4. Phinehas slays Zimri and Cozbi, 7. Therefore God promises him the priesthood forever, 11. God commands the slaying of the Midianites, 17. For having dealt guilefully with the Israelites, 18.
AND Israela abode in 1Shittim, and 2the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of 3Moab.
Andb4they called the people unto the sacrifices 5of their gods: and 6the people 7did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindledc against Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Taked8all the heads of the people, and hang them up 9before the LORD against the 10sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one 11his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
¶And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto 12his 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.
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, hee rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
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.
And thosef that died in the plague were 13twenty and four thousand.
¶And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealousg for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Wherefore say, Behold, 14I giveh unto him my covenant 15of peace:
And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the 16covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
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.
And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was 17head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
¶And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Vexi the Midianites, and smite them:
For they vex youj 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 18sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.