17 “Harass the Midʹi·an·ites and strike them down,+ 18 because they have been harassing you with their cunning dealings against you in the affair of Peʹor+ and of Cozʹbi the daughter of a chieftain of Midʹi·an, their sister who was put to death+ in the day of the scourge over the affair of Peʹor.”+

17 Was the error of Peʹor not enough for us? We have not cleansed ourselves from it down to this day, even though a plague came upon the assembly of Jehovah.+