Numbers 25:1-9

Israel Sacrifices to Baal

And Israel remained at ^aShittim, and the people began ^bto play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. 2 Indeed ^athey called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So ^aIsrael joined themselves to ¹Baal of Peor, and the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel. 4 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all who are the heads of the people and execute them ¹in broad daylight before Yahweh, ^aso that the burning anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.” 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you ^akill his men who have joined themselves to ¹Baal of Peor.”
6 Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought near to his brothers a ^aMidianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, ^bwhile they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 7 ^aAnd Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, so he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand, 8 and he went after the man of Israel into the ¹tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the ²body. ^aThen the plague on the sons of Israel was checked. 9 ^aSo those who died by the plague were 24,000.

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