The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute[a] them in broad daylight before the Lord so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. 25:4 Or impale, or hang, or expose; Hb obscure

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.

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49 He sent his burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.[a](A)

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  1. 78:49 Or angels

49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

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