Pinchas was a priest best known for his violent reaction to Israelite worship of the god Ba'al Pe'or. As this worship was associated with sexual relationships between Israelite men and Moabite and Midianite women, he killed one such couple mid-intercourse. Pinchas was a leader of the Israelites when they went into the Promised Land.
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