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So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you, but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor."

The Lord said to Moses, "Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the Lord in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor."

and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman's abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.

"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.

So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, and has made atonement for the Israelites.'"

So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

So Moses brought their case before the Lord .

who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the Lord may not be like sheep that have no shepherd."

Then you must delegate some of your authority to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.

So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the Lord had commanded him.

So Moses spoke to the people: "Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the Lord 's vengeance on Midian.

So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge of the holy articles and the signal trumpets.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord 's raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord ."

So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord .