4 And the Lord said unto Moses , Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel .
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel , Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal –peor.
6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses , and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel , who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel , and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel .
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
11 Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel , while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel .
14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri , the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianite woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur ; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian .
18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor , and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian , their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor 's sake.