The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute[a] them in broad daylight before the Lord so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”

So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”

Phinehas Intervenes

An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:4 Or impale, or hang, or expose; Hb obscure

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