Numbers 25:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷ ‘Harass the Midianites, and defeat them; ¹⁸ for they have harassed you by the trickery with which they deceived you in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister; she was killed on the day of the plague that resulted from Peor.’