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11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger.

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11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites.(A) Since he was as zealous for my honor(B) among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.

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13 In this covenant, I give him and his descendants a permanent right to the priesthood, for in his zeal for me, his God, he purified the people of Israel, making them right with me.[a]

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  1. 25:13 Or he made atonement for the people of Israel.

13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood,(A) because he was zealous(B) for the honor(C) of his God and made atonement(D) for the Israelites.”(E)

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