Numbers 25:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ Then Moses said to Israel’s officials, “Each of you: kill your men who are attached to the Baal of Peor.”

Israelites and Midianites intermarry

⁶ An Israelite man brought a Midianite woman to his brothers in the sight of Moses and the entire Israelite community, who were weeping at the entrance of the meeting tent. ⁷ When Phinehas (Eleazar’s son and Aaron the priest’s grandson) saw this, he arose in the middle of the community, took a spear in his hand,