Numbers 25:7

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When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Shittim was Israel’s campsite on the plains of Moab, east of the Jordan near Mount Peor, where Moabite and Midianite influence drew Israelites into Baal worship and sexual sin. These events form the immediate setting for Phinehas’s intervention in Numbers 25:7.

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Numbers 25:7 mentions Midian, Moab, Peor and Shittim.