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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Numbers 25 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/numbers/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > Numbers 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/24.htm" title="Numbers 24">◄</a> Numbers 25 <a href="../numbers/26.htm" title="Numbers 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch04025" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn04025" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Worship of Baal of Peor.</span> <span id="v04025001" class="ver">1</span>While Israel was living at Shittim,<a id="rfn04025001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025001-1">*</a> the people profaned themselves by prostituting themselves with the Moabite women.<a id="ren04025001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en04025001-a">a</a> <span id="v04025002" class="ver">2</span>These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices<a id="ren04025002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en04025002-b">b</a> and bowed down to their god. <span id="v04025003" class="ver">3</span>Israel thereby attached itself to the Baal of Peor,<a id="ren04025003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en04025003-c">c</a> and the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s anger flared up against Israel. <span id="v04025004" class="ver">4</span><a id="ren04025004-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en04025004-d">d</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: Gather all the leaders of the people, and publicly execute them<a id="rfn04025004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025004-1">*</a> before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, that the blazing wrath of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> may turn away from Israel. <span id="v04025005" class="ver">5</span>So Moses told the Israelite judges, “Each of you kill those of his men who have attached themselves to the Baal of Peor.”<a id="rfn04025005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025005-1">*</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Zeal of Phinehas.</span> <span id="v04025006" class="ver">6</span>At this a certain Israelite came and brought in a Midianite woman<a id="rfn04025006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025006-1">*</a> to his kindred in the view of Moses and of the whole Israelite community, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting. <span id="v04025007" class="ver">7</span><a id="ren04025007-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en04025007-e">e</a> When Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he rose up from the assembly, and taking a spear in his hand, <span id="v04025008" class="ver">8</span>followed the Israelite into the tent where he pierced the two of them, the Israelite and the woman. Thus the plague upon the Israelites was checked; <span id="v04025009" class="ver">9</span>but the dead from the plague were twenty-four thousand.</p> <p><span id="v04025010" class="ver">10</span>Then the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: <span id="v04025011" class="ver">11</span>Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his being as jealous among them as I am; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites in my jealousy.<a id="rfn04025011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025011-1">*</a> <span id="v04025012" class="ver">12</span><a id="ren04025012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en04025012-f">f</a> Announce, therefore, that I hereby give him my covenant of peace,<a id="rfn04025012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025012-1">*</a> <span id="v04025013" class="ver">13</span>which shall be for him and for his descendants after him the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous on behalf of his God and thus made expiation for the Israelites.</p> <p><span id="v04025014" class="ver">14</span><a id="rfn04025014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025014-1">*</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. <span id="v04025015" class="ver">15</span>The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, daughter of Zur, who was head of a clan, an ancestral house, in Midian.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Vengeance on the Midianites.</span> <span id="v04025016" class="ver">16</span><a id="rfn04025016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04025016-1">*</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> then said to Moses: <span id="v04025017" class="ver">17</span><a id="ren04025017-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en04025017-g">g</a> Treat the Midianites as enemies and strike them, <span id="v04025018" class="ver">18</span>for they have been your enemies by the deceitful dealings they had with you regarding Peor and their kinswoman Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite prince, who was slain at the time of the plague because of Peor.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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