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And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.
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And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor.
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And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
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And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand,
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and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
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And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
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Thus do thou say , Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:
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and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
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Now the name of the smitten Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Madianitish woman, Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon.