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1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, | 1While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women, |
2who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. | 2who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods. |
3So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the LORD's anger burned against them. | 3The people joined the Baal-peor cult. As a result, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel, |
4The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel." | 4so the LORD told Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight for the LORD, so the LORD's burning anger may be withdrawn from Israel." |
5So Moses said to Israel's judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor." | 5Then Moses ordered the judges of Israel, "Each one of you is to execute the men in his own tribe who joined the Baal-peor cult." |
6Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. | 6That very moment, one of the Israelis arrived, bringing to his brothers one of the Midianite women, right in front of Moses and the entire community of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting! |
7When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand | 7When Eleazar's son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up from the middle of the community, grabbed a javelin in his hand, |
8and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman's stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; | 8followed the Israeli man inside his tent, and impaled the two of them—the Israeli man and the woman—right through both of them and into her abdomen. Then the plague infecting the Israelis was brought to a halt. Nevertheless, |
9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. | 924,000 people died because of the plague. |
10The LORD said to Moses, | 10The LORD told Moses, |
11"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. | 11"Eleazar's son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from Israel. Because his zealousness reflected my own zeal for them, I didn't consume Israel in my jealousy. |
12Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. | 12Therefore, I'm certainly going to be giving him my covenant of peace, |
13He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites." | 13for him and for his descendants after him, too, a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelis." |
14The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. | 14Now the name of the Israeli man who was slain, along with the Midianite woman, was Salu's son Zimri, a leader from the tribe of Simeon. |
15And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Kozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family. | 15The woman who was slain, that is, the Midianite woman, was named Cozbi. She was the daughter of Zur, a leader of one of the ancestral houses of Midian. |
16The LORD said to Moses, | 16Later, the LORD ordered Moses, |
17"Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them. | 17"Attack the Midianites and execute them, |
18They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident." | 18because they've acted deceitfully, bringing trouble to you in this incident at Peor with Cozbi, daughter of a prince from Midian, who was killed during the plague that came about because of the incident at Peor." |
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