Numbers 25:17
Good News Translation
"Attack the Midianites and destroy them,

New Revised Standard Version
“Harass the Midianites, and defeat them;

New American Bible
Treat the Midianites as enemies and strike them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:

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Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:

vex you

Numbers 31:15,16 Said: Why have you saved the women? . . .

Genesis 26:10 And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:

Exodus 32:21,35 And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin? . . .

Revelation 2:14 But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

beguiled

Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Peter 2:14,15,18 Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction. . . .

which

Numbers 25:8 Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.

Context
The Zeal of Phinehas
16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 17Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:18Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.…
Cross References
Numbers 22:4
He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab.

Numbers 25:1
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:16
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 25:18
Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.

Numbers 31:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 25:16
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