Numbers 25

At Shittim Israelites join the Moabite women in the worship of Baal of Peor, and a plague breaks out. Phinehas son of Eleazar kills an Israelite man and a Midianite woman, the plague stops, and God gives him a covenant of a lasting priesthood.

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