The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them [a]in broad daylight before the Lord, (A)so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.” So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you (B)slay his men who have joined themselves to [b]Baal of Peor.”

Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his [c]relatives a (C)Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, (D)while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:4 Lit in front of the sun
  2. Numbers 25:5 Or Baal-peor
  3. Numbers 25:6 Lit brothers