Moab Seduces Israel

25 While Israel was staying in Shittim,^(A) the men began to indulge in sexual immorality^(B) with Moabite^(C) women,^(D)

⁶ Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite^(A) woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping^(B) at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ⁷ When Phinehas^(C) son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear^(D) in his hand ⁸ and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;^(E)

⁵ The Israelites lived^(A) among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,^(B) Hivites and Jebusites.^{(C) 6} They took their daughters^(D) in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.^(E)

Othniel

⁷ The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord^(F) their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.^{(G) 8} The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold^(H) them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim^(I) king of Aram Naharaim,^[a](J) to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.