Numbers 25:5

World English Bible (2000)

Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."

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  • Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
  • Exod 18:25-26 : 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
  • Exod 22:20 : 20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
  • Exod 32:27-28 : 27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'" 28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
  • Deut 13:6 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
  • Deut 13:9 : 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
  • Deut 13:13 : 13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known;
  • Deut 13:15 : 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
  • Deut 17:3-5 : 3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded; 4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
  • 1 Kgs 18:40 : 40 Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

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  • Num 25:2-4
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    80%

    2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

    3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel.

    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."

  • Num 31:14-17
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    79%

    14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

    15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

    16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

    17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

  • Num 25:15-18
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    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.

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

    18 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."

  • Num 25:6
    77%

    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.

  • Deut 4:3
    77%

    3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

  • Num 25:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8 and 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 stayed from the children of Israel.

    9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

    8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2 "Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

    3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.

  • Josh 13:22
    74%

    22 The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

  • Exod 32:26-27
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    26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

    27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

  • Num 5:5
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    5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 5:11
    72%

    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 24:23
    71%

    23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 31:25
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    25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Josh 22:17
    71%

    17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

  • Num 15:35-37
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    35 Yahweh said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp."

    36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

    37 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Ps 106:28
    70%

    28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

  • Num 16:41
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    41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed Yahweh's people!"

  • Exod 19:21
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    21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Lev 20:1
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 24:13
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    13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 4:19
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    19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

  • Num 29:40
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    40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Deut 27:11
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    11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,

  • Num 16:36
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    36 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 31:16
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    16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

  • Num 30:1
    69%

    1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.

  • Judg 21:5
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    5 The children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."

  • Num 27:15
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    15 Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • Num 14:5
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    5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 35:1
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    1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.