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and said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight,[a] and then I will no longer be angry with the people.” Moses said to the officials, “Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor.”

One of the Israelites took a Midianite woman into his tent in the sight of Moses and the whole community, while they were mourning at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:4 in broad daylight; or publicly.

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