Chapter 25

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AND Yashar'el abode in Shittiym, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Mo'av.

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And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their elohiym: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their elohiym.

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And Yashar'el joined himself unto Ba`al Pe`or: and the anger of Yahuah was kindled against Yashar'el.

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And Yahuah said unto Mosheh, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before Yahuah against the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahuah may be turned away from Yashar'el.

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And Mosheh said unto the judges of Yashar'el, Slay ye everyone his men that were joined unto Ba`al Pe`or.

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And, behold, one of the children of Yashar'el came and brought unto his brethren a Midyaniyth woman in the sight of Mosheh, and in the sight of all the assembly of the children of Yashar'el, who were weeping before the door of the Tabernacle of the assembly.

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And when Piynechac, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the assembly, and took a javelin in his hand;

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And he went after the man of Yashar'el into the tent, and thrust both of them through, את the man of Yashar'el, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Yashar'el.

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And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

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And Yahuah spoke unto Mosheh, saying,

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Piynechac, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Yashar'el, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Yashar'el in my jealousy.

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Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

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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 Elohiym, and made an atonement for the children of Yashar'el.

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Now the name of the Yashar`e'liy that was slain, even that was slain with the Midyaniyth woman, was Zimriy, the son of Callu, a prince of a chief house among the Shim`oniym.

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And the name of the Midyaniy woman that was slain was Kozbiy, the daughter of Tsur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midyan.

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And Yahuah spoke unto Mosheh, saying,

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Vex the Midyaniym, and smite them:

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For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Pe'or, and in the matter of Kozbiy, the daughter of a prince of Midyan, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Pe'or's sake.



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