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4 Yahweh said to Moses:Take all heads of the people and gibbet them before Yahweh in front of the sun so that the heat of Yahweh's anger might turn back from Israel.
5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel:Kill each one his men who are pairing themselves with Baal-peor.
6 Behold, a man from the sons of Israel was coming in, and he brought near to his brothers a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel while they were lamenting at the opening of the tent of appointment.
7 When Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a lance in his hand.
8 He came after the man of Israel to the alcove and stabbed the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her pelvis. Then the stroke was restrained from the sons of Israel.
9 Those dying in the stroke were twenty-four thousand.
10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.
11 Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, reversed My fury from the sons of Israel in his zeal for My jealousy in their midst so I did not finish the sons of Israel in My jealousy.
12 Therefore say:Behold Me giving to him My covenant of peace;
13 it will be his and his seed's after him, the covenant of an eonian priesthood, inasmuch as he was zealous for his Elohim and made a propitiatory shelter over the sons of Israel.
14 The name of the smitten man of Israel, who was smitten with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, a prince of a father's house of the Simeonite.
15 And the name of the smitten Midianite woman was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a head of clans of a father's house in Midian.
16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.
17 Distress the Midianites and smite them,
18 for they were distressing you in their plots which they plotted against you over the matter of Peor and over the matter of their sister Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, who was smitten on the day of the stroke over the matter of Peor.