16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 17 (A)“Harass the Midianites, and [a]attack them; 18 for they harassed you with their (B)schemes[b] by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.”

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  1. Numbers 25:17 be hostile toward
  2. Numbers 25:18 tricks

16 The Lord said to Moses,(A) 17 “Treat the Midianites(B) as enemies(C) and kill them.(D) 18 They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident(E) involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.”

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