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and the Lord said to Moses, “Take all of the leaders of the people and hang them before the Lord in broad daylight[a] so that the rage of the Lord turns away from Israel.”

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you is to kill those who joined themselves to Baal of Peor.”

Then one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his relatives before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the whole assembly of the people of Israel who were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:4 Hang them before the Lord in broad daylight: a public display of those who had sinned might dissuade others from straying.