3By doing that, those Israeli people joined the women in worshiping the god Baal add who the Moab people-group thought lived on Mount Peor. That caused Yahweh to become very angry with his people..
4Yahweh said this to Moses/me: “Seize all the leaders of those men who are doing this and execute them while I am watching. Do that in the daytime. After you do that, I will no longer be angry with the Israeli people.”
5So Moses/I said to the other Israeli leaders, “Each of you must execute your men who have joined others in worshiping Baal.”
6But later, while Moses/I and many HYP other people were crying at the entrance of the Sacred Tent, while they/we were watching, one of the Israeli men brought a woman from the Midian people-group into his tent and started to have sex with her.
7When Phinehas, who was the grandson of Aaron, saw that, he grabbed a spear
8and rushed into the man's tent. He thrust the spear completely through the man's body and into the woman's belly and killed both of them. When he did that, the ◄plague/serious illness► that had started to strike the Israelis stopped.