¹⁰Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ¹¹^q“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in ^rMy zeal. ¹²Therefore say, ^s‘Behold, I give to him My ^tcovenant of peace; ¹³and it shall be to him and ^uhis descendants after him a covenant of ^van everlasting priesthood, because he was ^wzealous for his God, and ^xmade ²atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”

¹⁴Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s house among the Simeonites. ¹⁵And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of ^yZur; he was head of the people of a father’s house in Midian.

¹⁶Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁷^z“Harass the Midianites, and ³attack them; ¹⁸for they harassed you with their ^aschemes ⁴by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.”

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Footnotes

2Lit. covering
3be hostile toward
4tricks

Cross references

q Ps. 106:30
r[Ex. 20:5]; Deut. 32:16, 21; 1 Kin. 14:22; Ps. 78:58; Ezek. 16:38
s[Mal. 2:4, 5; 3:1]
t Is. 54:10; Ezek. 34:25; 37:26; Mal. 2:5
u 1 Chr. 6:4–15
v Ex. 40:15
w Acts 22:3; Rom. 10:2
x[Heb. 2:17]
y Num. 31:8; Josh. 13:21
z Num. 31:1–3
a Num. 31:16; Rev. 2:14