25:1 While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to commit infidelity with the daughters of Moab.
25:2 For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
25:3 So Israel ①became followers of ②Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry with Israel.
▷ ①Lit bound themselves to ②Or Baal-peor
25:4 And the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and ①execute them ②in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”
▷ ①Lit display them (dead) with broken limbs ②Lit in front of the sun
25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who have ①become followers of ②Baal of Peor.”
▷ ①Lit bound themselves to ②Or Baal-peor
25:6 Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
25:7 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,
25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the inner room of the tent and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through the abdomen. So the plague on the sons of Israel was brought to a halt.
25:9 But those who died from the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.
25:10 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
25:11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has averted My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was ①jealous with My ②jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My ③jealousy.
▷ ①Or possibly zealous; i.e., impassioned ②Or possibly anger ③Or possibly anger
25:12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I am giving him My covenant of peace;
25:13 and it shall be for him and for his ①descendants after him, a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he was ②jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’ ”
▷ ①Lit seed ②Or possibly zealous; i.e., impassioned
25:14 Now the name of the ①dead man of Israel who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s household among the Simeonites.
▷ ①Lit killed
25:15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, ①who was head of the people of a father’s household in Midian.
▷ ①Lit he
25:16 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
25:17 “Be hostile to the Midianites and attack them;
25:18 for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was killed on the day of the plague because of Peor.”