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but when one of them is blown, only the tribal leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, shall gather round you.

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If only one is sounded, the leaders(A)—the heads of the clans of Israel—are to assemble before you.

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14 [a]The name of the slain Israelite, the one slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, son of Salu, prince of a Simeonite ancestral house.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:14–15 The noble lineage of the slain couple is mentioned in order to stress the courage of Phinehas in punishing them. The zeal of Phinehas became proverbial; cf. Ps 106:30; Sir 45:23; 1 Mc 2:26, 54.

14 The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman(A) was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.(B)

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