Numbers 25:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ Moses said to the officials, “Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor.”

⁶ One of the Israelites took a Midianite woman into his tent in the sight of Moses and the whole community, while they were mourning at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence. ⁷ When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up and left the assembly. He took a spear,