Midrash sobre Números 25:16
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃
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Sefer HaYashar (midrash)
and when Balak saw that Balaam was not willing to follow his words, he rose up and went to his home, and Balaam also returned to his home in Midian. And the children of Israel journeyed from the plain of Moab and encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-hajesi moth up to Abel-shittim in the end of the plain of Moab. And when the children of Israel abode in the plain of Shittim they began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. For when the children of Israel approached Moab, and the people of Moab pitched their tents opposite the camp of Israel, the Moabites were in great fear of the children of Israel, and they took their daughters and wives who were of fine figure and comely appearance, and they dressed them in silver and in gold and in costly garments; and the children of Moab placed those women in the doors of their tents, that the children of Israel might incline to them and not fight against Moab; and the children of Israel turned unto the daughters of Moab, and they were charmed with them and went after them. And when a Hebrew came to the door of a Moabitish tent and he saw the daughter of Moab, he felt a desire for her in his heart, and he spoke unto her as he pleased. And while they were en gaged in conversation, the men of Moab would come out of the tent and address the Hebrew in words like these, saying: Are we not brethren, all the descendants of Lot and the descendants of Abraham his brother, wherefore then do you not abide with us, and wherefore do you not eat of our bread and of our sacrifices? And when the Moabites had thus spoken and enticed him with their smooth words, they seated him in the tent and they slaughtered and sacrificed before him, and he ate of their bread and sacrifices; and they gave him wine and he drank, and when they had him intoxicated they placed a beautiful maiden before him, and he did with her according to his pleasure, for he knew not what he was doing after having drunk such an abundance of wine. Thus did the sons of Moab unto Israel in that place in the valley of Shittim. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel on that account, and he sent a pestilence among them, and there died of Israel twenty-four thousand men. And there was a man of the children of Simeon, Zimri, son of Salu, was his name, and he enjoyed the person of the Midianite, Cobi, daughter of Zur, king of Midian, before the eyes of all the children of Israel; and when Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priest, saw this great wickedness of Zimri, Phineas went and took a spear into his hands, and he followed them and pierced both of them through, and slew them. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
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