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Numbers 25: Faithful to God Alone

At Shittim, Israelite men join in Moab's sin and bow down to the false god Baal Peor. God's anger burns, and a plague breaks out. When an Israelite leader openly brings a Midianite woman into the camp, Phinehas the priest acts and the plague stops. God gives Phinehas a covenant of peace and a lasting priesthood.

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  1. 1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  2. 2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  3. 3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  4. 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  5. 5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  6. 6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  7. 7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  8. 8 He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  9. 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  10. 10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  11. 11 “Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  12. 12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  13. 13 It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  14. 14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  15. 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  16. 16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  17. 17 “Harass the Midianites, and strike them;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  18. 18 for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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Love God Only

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Color the tent and the people! God wants His people to love Him only.

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Bible Verse

“Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.”

Numbers 25:12 (WEB)

Prayer

Thank You, God, for making me!

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Read the verse aloud. Say: God wants us to love Him most of all. Some people worshiped a pretend god, and that made God sad.

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