Numbers 25:10–18

The Zeal of Phinehas

¹⁰And the Lord said to Moses, ¹¹“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he ^qwas jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in ^rmy jealousy. ¹²Therefore say, ^s‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, ¹³and it shall be to him and to ^this descendants after him the covenant of ^ua perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’ ”

¹⁴The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father’s house belonging to the Simeonites. ¹⁵And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of ^vZur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian.

¹⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^17w“Harass the Midianites and strike them down, ¹⁸for they have harassed you with their ^xwiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of ^yPeor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”