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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Numeri
Old Testament / Numbers / The daughters of Midian (Num. 25) / The Israelites committing whoredom with the daughters of Midian (Num. 25:1-3)
Old Testament / Numbers / The daughters of Midian (Num. 25) / Moses suspending the culprits on a gibbet (Num. 25:4-5)
Old Testament / Numbers / The daughters of Midian (Num. 25) / Phinehas stabs the Israelites and the Midianite woman caught together (Num. 25:6-8)
Old Testament / Numbers / War against the Midianites (Num. 31)

Further details

1. Whoredom with the daughters of Moab; 2. Moses punishing the culprits; 3. Phinehas killing the couple caught together; 4. War against the Midianites whose daughters are made prisoners

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 83v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 83

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