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Zimri (2)

  1. ZIMRI, Son of Salu, Prince of the Tribe of Simeon, who went publickly into the Tent of Cozbi, a Midianitish Woman, and was followed by Phinehas, the Son of Eleazar the High-Priest, and there stabbed by him along with Cozbi, in the midst of their lewd Embraces.1

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  1. Numb. xxv. 14. In the Year of the World 2553, before Christ 1447, before the Vulgar Æra 1451. ↩

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