The Five Books of Moses

Zimri

Family: Simeonites · Role: prince · First appears: Numbers 25

Life events

  • Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi, stopping the plague among Israel.(Numbers 25)
    • With: Phinehas Cozbi
    • “And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.”

Numbers 25

  • parent: Salu “Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.”
  • slayer: Phinehas (The slain man is identified as Zimri in verse 14.) “And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly.”

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