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Numbers 25:4 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.” "
Numbers 25:4
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2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.
4 The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”
5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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Numbers 25:1
"Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;"
Numbers 25:2
"for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods."
Numbers 25:3
"Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel."
Numbers 25:5
"Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”"
Numbers 25:6
"Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting."
Numbers 25:7
"When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand."
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