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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 ESV</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="../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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/numbers/25.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Baal Worship at Peor</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was kindled against Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or impale">a</a></sup></span> them in the sun before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that the fierce anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> may turn away from Israel.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.</p> <p class="heading">The Zeal of Phinehas</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father’s house belonging to the Simeonites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Harass the Midianites and strike them down, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>impale</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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