The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.
So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.
So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”
An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
“It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of a family in Midian.
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