[The Pentateuch]

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

And Israel dwelt in Sittim / and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab / which called the people unto y• sacrifice of their gods. ⟨image 294⟩And the people are and worshipped their gods / and Israel coupled him self unto Baal Peor. Then the Lord was angry with Israel / and said unto Moses: take all y• heeds of the people / and hang them up unto yt Lord against the sun / that the wrath of the Lord may turn away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel: goo and slay those men that joined them selves unto Baal Peor.

ANd Israel dwelt in Sittim / and the people began to commytt whoredome with the doughters of Moab / which called the people vnto y• sacrifyce of their goddes. ⟨image 294⟩And the people are and worshipped their goddes / and Israel coupled him selfe vnto Baal Peor. Then ye Lorde was angrie with Israel / and sayed vnto Moses: take all y• heedes of the people / and hange them vp vnto yt Lorde agenst the sonne / that the wrath of the Lorde mayeturne awaye from Israel. And Moses sayed vnto the iudges of Israel: goo and slee those men that ioyned thē selues vnto Baal Peor.

And behold / one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren / a Madianitish wife even in the sight of Moses & in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel / as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And when Phinehas the son of Eleazer the son of Aaron the priest saw it / he rose up out of the company and toke a weapon in his hand / and went after the man of Israel in to the whorehouse / & thrust them through: both the man of Israel and also the woman even through the belly of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel. And there dyed in the plague .xxiiij. thousand.