1 And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they invited 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 Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
4 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay every one his men that have joined themselves to Baal-Peor.
6 And behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianitish woman to his brethren, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tent of meeting.
7 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose up from among the assembly, and took a javelin in his hand,
8 and he went after the man of Israel into the tent-chamber, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. And the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
10 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Therefore say, Behold, I give unto 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 jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
14 And the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, the prince of a father's house of the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was tribal head of a father's house in Midian.
16 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
17 Harass the Midianites, and smite them,
18 for they have harassed 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, who was slain on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor.
1 Izraelitams gyvenant Šitime, tauta pradėjo paleistuvauti su Moabo dukterimis.
2 Jos kvietė izraelitus į aukojimo šventes. Ten jie valgė ir lenkėsi prieš jų dievus.
3 Izraelitai garbino Baal Peorą. Užsirūstinęs Viešpats
4 tarė Mozei: "Surink visus tautos vadus ir juos pakark saulės kaitroje, kad mano rūstybė nepaliestų Izraelio tautos".
5 Mozė įsakė Izraelio teisėjams užmušti visus Baal Peoro garbintojus.
6 Vienas izraelitas atsivedė midjanietę į savo palapinę Mozei ir visiems izraelitams matant, tuo metu, kai jie raudojo prie Susitikimo palapinės įėjimo.
7 Tai išvydęs, kunigo Aarono sūnaus Eleazaro sūnus Finehasas pakilo iš susirinkusiųjų ir, pagriebęs ietį,
8 įėjo į palapinę paskui izraelitą, ir perdūrė juos abu kiauraiizraelitą ir moterį per jos pilvą. Tada liovėsi maras tarp Izraelio sūnų.
9 Iš viso nuo maro mirė dvidešimt keturi tūkstančiai žmonių.
10 Viešpats tarė Mozei:
11 "Kunigo Aarono sūnaus Eleazaro sūnus Finehasas išgelbėjo izraelitus nuo mano rūstybės; jis buvo uolus dėl manęs, kad Aš nesunaikinčiau izraelitų, apimtas pavydo.
12 Todėl sakyk jam, kad Aš darau su juo taikos sandorą:
13 jam ir jo palikuonims priklausys kunigystė kaip amžina sandora, nes jis buvo uolus dėl Dievo ir sutaikino izraelitus".
14 Izraelitas, kurį nužudė kartu su midjaniete, buvo Saluvo sūnus Zimris, Simeono giminės kunigaikštis,
15 o nužudytoji midjanietė, vardu Kozbė, buvo Midjano giminės kunigaikščio Cūro duktė.
16 Viešpats kalbėjo Mozei:
17 "Išžudykite midjaniečius,
18 nes jie pasielgė su jumis klastingai, suvedžiodami jus Baalo garbinimu ir midjaniečių kunigaikščio dukterimi Kozbe, savo seserimi, kuri buvo nužudyta dėl Peoro maro dieną".