1And Israel dwelt in Settim and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. 2And they called the people to the altars of their gods and the people ate and they worshipped their gods. 3And Israel was initiated to Baal Peor and the wrath of LORD JEHOVAH was provoked against the children of Israel. 4And LORD JEHOVAH said to Moshe: “Take all the Heads of the people and stretch them out before LORD JEHOVAH against the sun and turn back the heat of his wrath from the children of Israel.” 5And Moshe said to the Judges of Israel: “Kill each man his men, those who are initiated to Baal Peor.”

6And behold, a man from the children of Israel came and he approached before his brothers, and going in entered into a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moshe and before the eyes of all of the assembly of the children Israel, and they were weeping in the door of the Time Tabernacle. 7And Phinekhas, son of Eliazar, son of Ahron the Priest, saw him and stood up from within the assembly and he took a spear in his hand. 8And he went in after the man, a son of Israel, to the alcove, and he pierced them both through, the man, a son of Israel, and the woman, through her womb, in the alcove, and the plague was restrained suddenly from Israel. 9And there were twenty and four thousand who died in the plague that came suddenly.

10And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and said to him: 11“Phinekhas, son of Eliazer, son of Ahron the Priest, turned my wrath from the children of Israel and he was zealous with my zeal among them, and I have not destroyed the children of Israel in my zeal. 12Because of this, I have said: ‘Behold, I give to him a covenant of peace.’ 13And he shall have and his children after Him, a covenant of the priesthood to eternity, because he was zealous in his God and atoned for the children of Israel.”

14And the name of the man, the son of Israel slain, who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zemri, son of Selu, a Prince among the fathers of the tribe of Shemon. 15And the name of the Midianite woman, Cosbi daughter of Tsor; he was the Head of the people of the house of her fathers in Midian.

16And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and said to him: 17“Distress the Midianites and put them to the sword. 18Because they distress you with their treachery by which they betrayed you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cosbi, daughter of the Prince of Midian, their sister who was killed in the days of the plague that came suddenly in the matter of Peor.”