Numbers 25
King James Version
25 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
4 And 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.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
6 And, 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.
7 And 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;
8 And 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.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
10 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas, 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.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
13 And 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.
14 Now 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.
15 And 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.
16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
18 For 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.
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El pueblo peca en Sitim
25 Mientras Israel habitaba en Sitim(A), el pueblo comenzó a prostituirse(B) con las hijas de Moab. 2 Y estas invitaron al pueblo a los sacrificios que hacían a sus dioses(C), y el pueblo comió y se postró ante sus dioses. 3 Así Israel se unió a Baal de Peor(D), y se encendió la ira del Señor contra Israel. 4 Y el Señor dijo a Moisés: «Toma a todos los jefes del pueblo y ejecútalos delante del Señor a plena luz del día, para que se aparte de Israel la ardiente ira del Señor(E)». 5 Entonces Moisés dijo a los jueces de Israel: «Cada uno de ustedes mate a aquellos de los suyos que se han unido a Baal de Peor(F)».
6 Entonces un hombre, uno de los israelitas, vino y presentó una madianita(G) a sus parientes, a la vista de Moisés y a la vista de toda la congregación de los israelitas, que lloraban a la puerta de la tienda de reunión(H). 7 Cuando lo vio Finees(I), hijo de Eleazar, hijo del sacerdote Aarón, se levantó de en medio de la congregación, y tomando una lanza en su mano, 8 fue tras el hombre de Israel, entró en la alcoba y los traspasó a los dos, al hombre de Israel y a la mujer por su vientre. Y así cesó la plaga sobre los israelitas(J). 9 Y los que murieron por la plaga fueron 24,000(K).
10 Entonces el Señor dijo a Moisés: 11 «Finees(L), hijo de Eleazar, hijo del sacerdote Aarón, ha apartado Mi furor de los israelitas porque demostró su celo por Mí entre ellos, y en Mi celo no he destruido a los israelitas(M). 12 Por tanto, dile: “Ciertamente Yo le doy(N) Mi pacto de paz(O); 13 y será para él y para su descendencia después de él, un pacto de sacerdocio perpetuo(P), porque tuvo celo por su Dios e hizo expiación por los israelitas(Q)”».
14 El nombre del hombre de Israel que fue muerto con la madianita era Zimri, hijo de Salu, jefe de una casa paterna de Simeón. 15 Y el nombre de la mujer madianita que fue muerta era Cozbi(R), hija de Zur(S), el cual era cabeza del pueblo de una casa paterna en Madián.
16 Entonces el Señor habló a Moisés y le dijo: 17 «Hostiguen a los madianitas y hiéranlos(T); 18 pues ellos han sido hostiles a ustedes con sus engaños, con los que los engañaron en el asunto de Peor, y en el asunto de Cozbi, hija del jefe de Madián, hermana de ellos, que fue muerta el día de la plaga por causa de Peor».
Numbers 25
International Standard Version
Worship of Baal of Peor
25 While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women, 2 who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed[a] and then worshipped their gods. 3 The people joined the Baal-peor cult.[b] As a result, the anger of the Lord flared up against Israel, 4 so the Lord told Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute[c] them in broad daylight for the Lord, so the Lord’s burning anger may be withdrawn from Israel.”
5 Then Moses ordered the judges of Israel, “Each one of you is to execute the men in his own tribe[d] who joined the Baal-peor cult.”
6 That 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! 7 When 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, 8 followed the Israeli man inside his tent,[e] 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, 9 24,000 people died because of the plague.
God Commends Phinehas
10 The Lord told Moses, 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. 12 Therefore, I’m certainly going to be giving him my covenant of peace, 13 for 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.”
14 Now 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. 15 The woman who was slain, that is, the Midianite woman, was named Cozbi. She was the daughter of Zur, a leader[f] of one of the ancestral houses of Midian.
God Orders the Destruction of Midian
16 Later, the Lord ordered Moses, 17 “Attack the Midianites and execute them, 18 because 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.”
Footnotes
- Numbers 25:2 The Heb. lacks what they had sacrificed
- Numbers 25:3 Lit. joined themselves to Baal-Peor; and so throughout the chapter
- Numbers 25:4 Or hang
- Numbers 25:5 The Heb. lacks in his own tribe
- Numbers 25:8 Or inner part of the tent
- Numbers 25:15 Lit. head
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