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So when Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the congregation, even the heads of the ^[o]families of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Manasseh, "Today we know that the ^(z) Lord is in our midst, because you have not committed this unfaithful act against the Lord ; now you have delivered the sons of Israel from the hand of the Lord ."