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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"><title>Numbers 25 Amplified 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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../topmenuchap/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">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/numbers/25.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Sin of Peor</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Israel settled <i>and</i> remained in Shittim, and the people began to play the prostitute with the women of Moab [by being unfaithful to God]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For they invited the Israelites to the sacrifices of their gods, and the Israelites ate [food offered to idols] and bowed down to Moab’s gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor [in worship]. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people [who have committed sin with the Moabites], and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each one of you must kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor [in worship].” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then one of the Israelites came and presented to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of the Israelites, while they were weeping [over God’s judgment] at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle). <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he left the congregation and took a spear in his hand, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and pierced both of them through the body, the man of Israel and the woman. Then the plague on the Israelites stopped. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Nevertheless, those [Israelites] who died in the plague numbered 24,000. <p class="hdg">The Zeal of Phinehas</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the Israelites because he was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My jealousy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to Phinehas My covenant of peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And it shall be for him and his descendants after him, a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous (impassioned) for [the unique honor and respect owed to] his God and made <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>atonement for the sons of Israel.’” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now the name of the man of Israel who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s household among the Simeonites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s household in Midian. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Provoke hostilities with the Midianites and attack them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for they harass you with their tricks, the tricks with which they have deceived you in the matter [of the Baal] of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague because [of the Baal] of Peor.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> I.e. intolerant of unfaithfulness. 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