Numbers 25:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴ So he said to Moses, “Take the Israelite leaders who are responsible for this and have them killed in front of my sacred tent where everyone can see. Maybe then I will stop being angry with the Israelites.”

⁵ Moses told Israel's officials,^[a] “Each of you must put to death any of your men who worshiped Baal.”

⁶ Later, Moses and the people were at the sacred tent, crying, when one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite^[b] woman to meet his family.