So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you (A)slay his men who have joined themselves to [a]Baal of Peor.”

Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his [b]relatives a (B)Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, (C)while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting. (D)When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:5 Or Baal-peor
  2. Numbers 25:6 Lit brothers