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And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw
it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;
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and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague of the sons of Israel was stayed.
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And those that died in that plague were twenty-four thousand.
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Then the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, being zealous for my sake among them, therefore I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.
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Because of this say
unto them, Behold, I establish my covenant of peace with him;
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and he shall have, and his seed after him,
even the covenant of the everlasting priesthood because he was zealous for his God and reconciled the sons of Israel.
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Now the name of the Israelite that was slain,
even that was slain with the Midianite,
was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a family of the tribe of Simeon.
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And the name of the Midianite woman that was slain
was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, prince of peoples,
of the house of
the father, in Midian.
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And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
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Declare war on the Midianites and smite them;