1 E Israel habitou em Sitim, e o povo começou a se prostituir com as filhas de Moabe.
2 E estas convidaram o povo para os sacrifícios de seus deuses, e o povo comeu e se inclinou diante de seus deuses.
3 E Israel se uniu a Baal-Peor, e a ira do SENHOR se acendeu contra Israel.
4 E o SENHOR disse a Moisés: Toma todos os cabeças do povo, e enforca-os perante o SENHOR, diante do sol, para que a ira do SENHOR possa se afastar de Israel.
5 E Moisés disse aos juízes de Israel: Que cada um mate os seus homens que se juntaram a Baal-Peor.
6 E eis que veio um dos filhos de Israel, e trouxe a seus irmãos uma midianita, perante os olhos de Moisés e de toda a congregação dos filhos de Israel, que estava chorando diante da porta do tabernáculo da congregação.
7 E quando Fineias, filho de Eleazar, filho de Arão, o sacerdote, viu isto, levantou-se do meio da congregação, e tomou uma lança na sua mão.
8 E foi em busca do homem israelita até a tenda, e furou a ambos pelo seu ventre, ao homem de Israel, e à mulher. Então a praga cessou sobre os filhos de Israel.
9 E os que morreram daquela praga foram vinte e quatro mil.
10 E o SENHOR falou a Moisés, dizendo:
11 Fineias, filho de Eleazar, filho de Arão, o sacerdote, desviou a minha ira de sobre os filhos de Israel, enquanto ele foi zeloso por mim, entre eles, de modo que, no meu zelo, não consumi os filhos de Israel.
12 Portanto, dize: Eis que lhe dou o meu pacto de paz.
13 E ele, e a sua semente depois dele, terão o pacto de um sacerdócio perpétuo; porque ele foi zeloso pelo seu Deus, e fez expiação pelos filhos de Israel.
14 E o nome do israelita morto, que foi morto com a midianita, era Zinri, filho de Salu, chefe de uma importante casa dos simeonitas.
15 E o nome da mulher midianita que foi morta era Cosbi, filha de Zur, ele era cabeça de um povo, e da casa paterna de Midiã.
16 E o SENHOR disse a Moisés, dizendo:
17 Atacai os midianitas e os ferireis.
18 Porque eles vos irritaram com os seus enganos, com que vos enganaram no assunto de Peor e no assunto de Cosbi, filha de um príncipe de Midiã, irmã deles, que foi morta no dia da praga por causa de Peor.
1 And Israel lived in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
3 And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
4 And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal-peor.
6 And behold! One of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons 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 spear in his hand.
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman, through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
10 And the LORD spoke to Moses saying,
11 Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the sons of Israel while he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.
12 Therefore say, Behold! I give him My covenant of peace.
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the sons of Israel.
14 And the name of the Israelite who was killed, he who was struck with the woman of Midian, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, ruler of a chief house of the Simeonites.
15 And the Midianite woman's name who was killed [was] Cosbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
16 And the LORD spoke to Moses saying,
17 Trouble the Midianites and strike them.
18 For they trouble you with their lies, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of a ruler of Midian, their sister, who was stricken in the day of the plague because of Peor.