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Bamidbar 25

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25:1

The Baal-Peor Breach and the Zeal of Pinchas

And Yashar'al abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
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And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their lo alahiym: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their lo alahiym.
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And Yashar'al joined himself unto Baal-Peor: and the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was kindled against Yashar'al.
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The Judgment of the Judges

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said unto Mushah, "Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 against the sun, that the fierce anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 may be turned away from Yashar'al."
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And Mushah said unto the judges of Yashar'al, "Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-Peor."
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The Zeal of Pinchas

And, behold, one of the children of Yashar'al came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Mushah, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Yashar'al, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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And when Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
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And he went after the man of Yashar'al into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Yashar'al, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Yashar'al.
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And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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The Covenant of Peace

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spake unto Mushah, saying,
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"Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Yashar'al, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Yashar'al in my jealousy."
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"Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace (Brit Shalum):"
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"And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his Alahiym, and made an atonement for the children of Yashar'al."
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Now the name of the Yashar'alite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Sham'unites.
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And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Kozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
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The Command to Smite Midian

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spake unto Mushah, saying,
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"Vex the Midianites, and smite them:"
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"For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Kozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."