Gen 12:1-3, 15:5-6, Num 25:6-15 | ESV | STEP | Now the Lord said to Abram , Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:1-3

The Call of Abram

1 Now ^athe Lord said ^{▼▼Or had said} to Abram, “Go from your country ^{▼▼Or land} and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 ^dAnd I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 ^eI will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and ^fin you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” ^{▼▼Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves}

Genesis 15:5-6

5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and ^hnumber the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, ⁱ“So shall your offspring be.” 6 And ^jhe believed the Lord, and ^khe counted it to him as righteousness.

Numbers 25:6-15

6 And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were ^lweeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. 7 ^mWhen Phinehas ⁿthe son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand 8 and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. 9 Nevertheless, ^othose who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

The Zeal of Phinehas

10 And the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he ^pwas jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in ^qmy jealousy. 12 Therefore say, ^r‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, 13 and it shall be to him and to ^shis descendants after him the covenant of ^ta perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”

14 The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father’s house belonging to the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of ^uZur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian.