OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 25:8

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He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

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Verse 8. Parts. Ovid says, Lethifer ille locus, “That place where wounds so often deadly prove.” Hebrew kubbak, means brothel-house just before, a bead, vault, cistern, belly, and so forth Septuagint translate, “through her womb.” The plague, inflicted by God, instantly ceased, to shew the divine approbation of this exemplary punishment, and all were so much filled with terror and repentance, that it was no longer necessary for the judges to sentence any more to death. An effectual stop was also put to the spreading disorder of both carnal and spiritual fornication. Bible.

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