Numbers - 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.