¹⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷ “Be hostile to the Midianites, and defeat them, ¹⁸ because they have been hostile to you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Kozbi the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague because of Peor.”