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so the Lord told Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute[a] them in broad daylight for the Lord, so the Lord’s burning anger may be withdrawn from Israel.”

Then Moses ordered the judges of Israel, “Each one of you is to execute the men in his own tribe[b] who joined the Baal-peor cult.”

That very moment, one of the Israelis arrived, bringing to his brothers one of the Midianite women, right in front of Moses and the entire community of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting!

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:4 Or hang
  2. Numbers 25:5 The Heb. lacks in his own tribe