Numbers 25:4-6

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⁴ The Lord said to Moses, “Get all the leaders of these people. Then kill them so that all the people can see.^[a] Lay their bodies before the Lord. Then the Lord will not show his anger against all the Israelites.”

⁵ So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must find the men in your tribe who have led people to worship the false god, Baal of Peor. Then you must kill these men.”

⁶ At the time Moses and all the elders of Israel were gathered together at the entrance to the Meeting Tent. An Israelite man brought a Midianite woman home to his brothers.^[b] He did this where Moses and all the leaders could see. Moses and the leaders were very sad.