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Numbers 25
New International Version

### Moab Seduces Israel

25 While Israel was staying in Shittim,(A) the men began to indulge in sexual immorality(B) with Moabite(C) women,(D) 2 who invited them to the sacrifices(E) to their gods.(F) The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. 3 So Israel yoked themselves to(G) the Baal of Peor.(H) And the Lord’s anger burned against them.

4 The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders(I) of these people, kill them and expose(J) them in broad daylight before the Lord,(K) so that the Lord’s fierce anger(L) may turn away from Israel.”

5 So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death(M) those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”(N)

6 Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite(O) woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping(P) at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7 When Phinehas(Q) son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear(R) in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;(S) 9 but those who died in the plague(T) numbered 24,000.(U)

10 The Lord said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites.(V) Since he was as zealous for my honor(W) among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace(X) with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood,(Y) because he was zealous(Z) for the honor(AA) of his God and made atonement(AB) for the Israelites.”(AC)

14 The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman(AD) was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.(AE) 15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Kozbi(AF) daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.(AG)

16 The Lord said to Moses,(AH) 17 “Treat the Midianites(AI) as enemies(AJ) and kill them.(AK) 18 They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident(AL) involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.”

#### Cross references

1. Numbers 25:1 : S Nu 21:16; Jos 2:1; Isa 66:11; Joel 3:18; Mic 6:5
2. Numbers 25:1 : Jer 5:7; 7:9; 9:2; 1Co 10:8; Rev 2:14
3. Numbers 25:1 : S Ge 19:37
4. Numbers 25:1 : Nu 31:16
5. Numbers 25:2 : S Ex 32:6
6. Numbers 25:2 : Ex 20:5; Dt 32:38; 1Co 10:20
7. Numbers 25:3 : Dt 4:19; Jdg 2:19; 1Ki 9:9; Jer 1:16; 44:3
8. Numbers 25:3 : S Nu 23:28
9. Numbers 25:4 : Nu 7:2; 13:3
10. Numbers 25:4 : 2Sa 21:6
11. Numbers 25:4 : Dt 4:3
12. Numbers 25:4 : Ex 32:12; Dt 13:17; Jos 7:26; 2Ki 23:26; 2Ch 28:11; 29:10; 30:8; Ezr 10:14; Jer 44:3
13. Numbers 25:5 : S Ex 32:27
14. Numbers 25:5 : Hos 9:10
15. Numbers 25:6 : S Ge 25:2
16. Numbers 25:6 : S Nu 14:1; Jdg 2:4; Ru 1:9; 1Sa 11:4; 2Sa 15:30; Ezr 10:1; Ps 126:6; Jer 41:6
17. Numbers 25:7 : S Ex 6:25; Jos 22:13; Jdg 20:28
18. Numbers 25:7 : Jdg 5:8; 1Sa 13:19, 22; 1Ki 18:28; Ps 35:3; 46:9; Joel 3:10; Mic 4:3
19. Numbers 25:8 : Ps 106:30
20. Numbers 25:9 : S Nu 14:37; 1Co 10:8
21. Numbers 25:9 : Nu 31:16
22. Numbers 25:11 : Ps 106:30
23. Numbers 25:11 : Ex 20:5; Dt 32:16, 21; Ps 78:58
24. Numbers 25:12 : Isa 11:9; 54:10; Eze 34:25; 37:26; Mal 2:4, 5
25. Numbers 25:13 : S Ex 29:9
26. Numbers 25:13 : 1Ki 19:10; 2Ki 10:16
27. Numbers 25:13 : ver 11
28. Numbers 25:13 : S Ex 29:36; S Ro 3:25
29. Numbers 25:13 : Ps 106:31; Jer 33:18
30. Numbers 25:14 : ver 6
31. Numbers 25:14 : S Nu 1:6
32. Numbers 25:15 : ver 18
33. Numbers 25:15 : Nu 31:8; Jos 13:21; Hab 3:7
34. Numbers 25:16 : Nu 31:7
35. Numbers 25:17 : Nu 31:1-3
36. Numbers 25:17 : Ex 23:22; Jdg 2:16-18; Ne 9:27; Ps 8:2; 21:8; 74:23
37. Numbers 25:17 : Dt 21:1; 1Sa 17:9, 35; 2Ki 9:27; 10:25
38. Numbers 25:18 : S Nu 23:28

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