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And Yisra’el remained in Shittim, and the people began to whore with the daughters of Moav.
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And they called the people to the sacrifices of their elohim, and the people ate and bowed themselves to their elohim.
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And Yisra’el joined himself to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Yahuah burned against Yisra’el.
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And Yahuah said to Mosheh, “Take all the heads of the people and hang them before Yahuah in the sun, so that the burning anger of Yahuah may turn away from Yisra’el.”
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And Mosheh said to the judges of Yisra’el, “Each ish, kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal-Peor.”
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And see, an ish from the sons of Yisra’el came and brought near to his brothers a Midyanit ishah before the eyes of Mosheh and before the eyes of all the congregation of the sons of Yisra’el, while they were weeping at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
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And Pinechas son of Elazar, son of Aharon the kohen, saw, and he rose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand.
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And he went after the ish of Yisra’el into the inner chamber and pierced both of them through, the ish of Yisra’el and the ishah through her belly. And the plague was restrained from upon the sons of Yisra’el.
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And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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And Yahuah spoke to Mosheh, saying,
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“Pinechas son of Elazar, son of Aharon the kohen, has turned back My wrath from upon the sons of Yisra’el by being jealous with My jealousy in their midst, so that I did not consume the sons of Yisra’el in My jealousy.
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Therefore say: See, I am giving to him My covenant of peace.
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And it shall be to him and to his seed after him a covenant of everlasting kehunah, because he was jealous for his Elohim and made atonement for the sons of Yisra’el.”
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And the name of the ish of Yisra’el who was struck, who was struck with the Midyanit ishah, was Zimri son of Salu, a ruler of a father’s house among the Shimoni.
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And the name of the Midyanit ishah who was struck was Kozbi daughter of Tzur. He was head of the people of a father’s house in Midyan.
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And Yahuah spoke to Mosheh, saying,
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“Harass the Midyanim and strike them,
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for they harassed you with their schemes by which they schemed against you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Kozbi daughter of a ruler of Midyan, their sister, who was struck on the day of the plague because of Peor.”