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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Cozbi (Woman living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness)
Daughter of Zur, a Midianite chief. Phinehas the priest killed her and the Israelite Zimri together at Baal-peor, and the plague that came with it was remembered as a warning.
Daughter of Zur, a Midianite chief. Phinehas the priest killed her and the Israelite Zimri together at Baal-peor, and the plague that came with it was remembered as a warning.
Cozbi was a Midianite woman, daughter of a tribal chief named Zur, who was killed along with the Israelite man Zimri by Phinehas the priest for their open immorality at Baal-peor (Numbers 25:6-18). The incident, and the plague that followed it, was remembered afterward as a warning against intermarriage that led Israel into idolatry.
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- Numbers 25:15
- Numbers 25:18
