Numbers 25:1-8 And Israel abode in Sittim, and the people began to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And Israel abode in Sittim, and the people began to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab ² Whiche called the people vnto the sacrifice of their gods: And the people dyd eate, and bowed downe to their gods ³ And Israel coupled hym selfe vnto Baal Peor, and the indignation of the Lorde was kindeled against Israel ⁴ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Take all the heades of the people, and hang them vp before the Lorde against the sunne, that the wrath of the Lordes countenaunce may be turned away from Israel ⁵ And Moyses sayde vnto the Iudges of Israel: Euery one slay his men that were ioyned vnto Baal Peor ⁶ And behold, one of the chyldren of Israel came & brought vnto his brethren a Madianitishe woman, euen in the sight of Moyses, and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel, that wept before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation ⁷ And when Phinehes the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose vp out of the myddes of the companie, & toke a iauelin in his hande ⁸ And went after the man of Israel into the tent, & thrust them through both the man of Israel & also the woman, euen thorowe the belly of her: And the plague ceassed fro the chyldre of Israel