... > Bible > Old Testament > Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua: from the bondage of the Israelites in Egypt to their settlement in Canaan > Numbers: the wandering in the wilderness, the Israelites leave Mount Sinai and reach Canaan > Numbers (part III): events in Moab > the Israelites' stay at Shittim during their journey through the desert (Numbers 25) > Zimri takes a Midianite woman, Cozbi, into his tent, while the people are lamenting at the entrance of the Tabernacle on account of an epidemic > Phinehas, Eleazar's son, follows Zimri and Cozbi and drives his spear through both of them