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Isra'el stayed at Sheetim, and there the people began whoring with the women of Mo'av.
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These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, where the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
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With Isra'el thus joined to Ba'al-P'or, the anger of ADONAI blazed up against Isra'el.
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ADONAI said to Moshe, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them facing the sun before ADONAI, so that the raging fury of ADONAI will turn away from Isra'el."
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Moshe said to the judges of Isra'el, "Each of you is to put to death those in his tribe who have joined themselves to Ba'al-P'or."
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Just then, in the sight of Moshe and the whole community of Isra'el, as they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting, a man from Isra'el came by, bringing to his family a woman from Midyan.
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When Pinchas the son of El'azar, the son of Aharon the cohen, saw it, he got up from the middle of the crowd, took a spear in his hand,
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and pursued the man from Isra'el right into the inner part of the tent, where he thrust his spear through both of them -the man from Isra'el and the woman through her stomach. Thus was the plague among the people of Isra'el stopped;
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nevertheless, 24,000 died in the plague.