OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 25:14

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Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.

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Verse 14. Kindred. Hebrew “of a chief house among the Simeonites,” as Sur was of equal nobility, “head over a people, and of a chief house in Madian,” verse 15. Bible.—He is styled king, and one of the five princes of the nation. Calmet. 31:8.

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