| New Living Translation | King James Bible |
| 1While the Israelites were camped at Acacia Grove, some of the men defiled themselves by having sexual relations with local Moabite women. | 1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. |
| 2These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, so the Israelites feasted with them and worshiped the gods of Moab. | 2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. |
| 3In this way, Israel joined in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD’s anger to blaze against his people. | 3And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. |
| 4The LORD issued the following command to Moses: “Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the LORD in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel.” | 4And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. |
| 5So Moses ordered Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death the men under your authority who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.” | 5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. |
| 6Just then one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into his tent, right before the eyes of Moses and all the people, as everyone was weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle. | 6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. |
| 7When Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly. He took a spear | 7And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; |
| 8and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man’s body and into the woman’s stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped, | 8And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. |
| 9but not before 24,000 people had died. | 9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. |
| 10Then the LORD said to Moses, | 10And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 11“Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger. | 11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. |
| 12Now tell him that I am making my special covenant of peace with him. | 12Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: |
| 13In this covenant, I give him and his descendants a permanent right to the priesthood, for in his zeal for me, his God, he purified the people of Israel, making them right with me. ” | 13And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. |
| 14The Israelite man killed with the Midianite woman was named Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a family from the tribe of Simeon. | 14Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. |
| 15The woman’s name was Cozbi; she was the daughter of Zur, the leader of a Midianite clan. | 15And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. |
| 16Then the LORD said to Moses, | 16And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 17“Attack the Midianites and destroy them, | 17Vex the Midianites, and smite them: |
| 18because they assaulted you with deceit and tricked you into worshiping Baal of Peor, and because of Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, who was killed at the time of the plague because of what happened at Peor.” | 18For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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