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Numbers 25:5-7
Contemporary English Version
Numbers 25:5-7
Contemporary English Version
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. 7 Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron[c] the priest, saw the couple and left the crowd. He found a spear
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- 25.5 officials: These were special leaders who were probably responsible for an entire tribe or part of a tribe.
- 25.6 Midianite: Used here as a general term for various peoples who lived east of the Jordan River. Some of these people were probably ruled by the Moabite king (see Genesis 36.35).
- 25.7 Phinehas … Aaron: Hebrew “Phinehas, son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron.”
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