Numbers 25:6-8
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Phinehas Intervenes
6 An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, 8 followed the Israelite man into the tent,[a] and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman – through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,
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- 25:8 Perhaps a tent shrine or bridal tent
Numbers 25:6-8
New King James Version
6 And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, (A)who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 7 Now (B)when Phinehas (C)the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose 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 body. So (D)the plague was (E)stopped among the children of Israel.
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