1 以色列人住在什亭， 人民与摩押的女子行起淫乱来。 2 那些女子叫以色列人来， 一同给她们的神献祭， 以色列人也吃了她们的祭物， 跪拜她们的神。 3 以色列人与巴力．毗珥连合， 耶和华就向以色列人发怒。 4 耶和华对摩西说： "把人民的首领都捉来， 在我耶和华面前对着太阳把他们悬挂起来， 好使耶和华的烈怒可以转消， 不向以色列人发作。" 5 于是摩西对以色列的审判官说： "你们各人要把与巴力．毗珥连合的人都杀了。" 6 摩西和以色列全体会众在会幕门口哭泣的时候， 以色列人中有一个人来， 当着他们的面带了一个米甸女子到自己的兄弟那里去。 7 亚伦祭司的孙子、以利亚撒的儿子非尼哈看见了， 就从会众中起来， 手里拿着枪， 8 跟着那以色列人， 进入卧室， 把他们两人刺透， 就是刺透那以色列人和那女子。枪刺进了那女子的肚腹。这样， 在以色列人中的瘟疫才止住。 9 那时因瘟疫而死的， 共有二万四千人。 10 耶和华对摩西说： 11 "亚伦祭司的孙子、以利亚撒的儿子非尼哈， 使我的烈怒稍消， 不向以色列人发作， 因为他在他们中间以我忌邪的心为心， 使我不因我忌邪的心把他们消灭。 12 因此你要说： ‘现在我把平安之约赐给他， 13 要给他和他的后裔作为永远担当祭司职分的约， 因为他为他的 神有忌邪的心， 为以色列人赎罪。’" 14 那被杀的以色列人， 就是与那米甸女子一同被杀的人， 名叫心利， 是撒路的儿子， 是西缅支派中一个家族的领袖。 15 那被杀的米甸女子， 名叫哥斯比， 是苏珥的女儿； 这苏珥是米甸一个家族的族长。 16 耶和华对摩西说： 17 "你要扰害米甸人， 打击他们； 18 因为他们用诡计扰害你们； 在毗珥的事上， 和他们的姊妹， 米甸领袖的女儿哥斯比的事上， 用诡计欺骗了你们。"这哥斯比在瘟疫的日子， 因毗珥的事被杀了。

1 And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,2 and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods,3 and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel.4 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them before Jehovah -- over-against the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah doth turn back from Israel.`5 And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, `Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.`6 And lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting;7 and Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priest, seeth, and riseth from the midst of the company, and taketh a javelin in his hand,8 and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman -- unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;9 and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.10 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,11 `Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath turned back My fury from the sons of Israel, by his being zealous with My zeal in their midst, and I have not consumed the sons of Israel in My zeal.12 `Therefore say, Lo, I am giving to him My covenant of peace,13 and it hath been to him and to his seed after him a covenant of a priesthood age-during, because that he hath been zealous for his God, and doth make atonement for the sons of Israel.`14 And the name of the man of Israel who is smitten, who hath been smitten with the Midianitess, [is] Zimri son of Salu, prince of the house of a father of the Simeonite;15 and the name of the woman who is smitten, the Midianitess, [is] Cozbi daughter of Zur, head of a people -- of the house of a father in Midian [is] he.16 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,17 `Distress the Midianites, and ye have smitten them,18 for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, [with] which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.`