Zimri commits fornication with Kozbi: the sixth commandment; Ten Commandments; Decalogvs CVM Acerbissimis. Zimri, a leader of the Israelites, takes Kozbi, a Midjanitian woman to his tent (Numbers 25: 6-8). Because she was from a different people, this is a violation of the sixth commandment: "You shall not commit adultery." In the background their punishment: they are all killed by the grandson of Aaron. The prents series depicts the ten commandments through scenes of the Old Testament.

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