 The Book of Numbers describes how, at Abila or Shittim, he took part in the Heresy of Peor, taking as a paramour a Midianite woman, Cozbi.Zimrī openly defied Moses before the people who were standing at the entrance of the Tabernacle by going in to the Midianite.Phinehas, grandson of Aaron, killed them both by impaling them on a spear ().