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Later, Moses and the people were at the sacred tent, crying, when one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite[a] woman to meet his family. Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron[b] the priest, saw the couple and left the crowd. He found a spear and followed the man into his tent, where he ran the spear through the man and into the woman's stomach. The Lord immediately stopped punishing Israel with a deadly disease,

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Footnotes

  1. 25.6 Midianite: Used here as a general term for various peoples who lived east of the Jordan River. Some of these people were probably ruled by the Moabite king (see Genesis 36.35).
  2. 25.7 Phinehas … Aaron: Hebrew “Phinehas, son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron.”

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