then you shall inquire, search out, and ask thoroughly. And if it is indeed true and the matter is firmly established that such an abomination has been done among you,

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What is this evil that has been done among you?

Plans are established by counsel; and wage war with good advice.

Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.

And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;

Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My jealousy.

and it shall be to him and his seed after him a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease? And Jehovah said, Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.

Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

And it was accounted to him for righteousness from generation to generation forevermore.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and do not disclose the secret to another,

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.