Numbers 25:4-6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ 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.’

⁵ So Moses told Israel’s judges, ‘Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.’

Phinehas Intervenes

⁶ 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.