|
The Fourth Book of Moses: Called Numbers, Chapter 25
|
1 |
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 sonof 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.
|