1 Habitando Israel em Sitim, o povo começou a fornicar com as filhas de Moabe;2 Elas convidaram o povo aos sacrifícios dos seus deuses, e o povo comeu, e adorou aos deuses delas.3 Juntando-se Israel a Baal de Peor, acendeu-se a ira de Jeová contra Israel.4 Disse Jeová a Moisés: Toma todos os cabeças do povo, e executa-os na presença de Jeová diante do sol, para que o furor de Jeová se aparte de Israel.5 Então disse Moisés aos juízes de Israel: Mate cada um aos seus homens que se ajuntaram a Baal de Peor.6 Eis que um dos filhos de Israel veio e trouxe aos seus irmãos uma mulher midianita à vista de Moisés e à vista de toda a congregação dos filhos de Israel, enquanto choravam à entrada da tenda da revelação.7 Vendo isso Finéias, filho de Eleazar, filho do sacerdote Arão, levantou-se do meio da congregação, e tomou uma lança na mão;8 e, tendo entrado após o israelita na tenda, atravessou-os a ambos, ao israelita, e à mulher pelo ventre. Assim cessou a praga de sobre os filhos de Israel.9 Os que morreram da praga foram vinte e quatro mil.10 Então disse Jeová a Moisés:11 Finéias, filho de Eleazar, filho do sacerdote Arão, apartou a minha ira dos filhos de Israel, porque estava animado com o meu zelo entre eles, de sorte que no meu zelo eu não consumisse os filhos de Israel.12 Portanto, dize: Eis que eu lhe dou a minha aliança da paz;13 ele, e a sua semente depois dele, terá a aliança dum sacerdócio perpétuo; porque foi zeloso pelo seu Deus, e fez expiação pelos filhos de Israel.14 O nome do israelita morto, que foi morto com a mulher midianita, era Zimri, filho de Salu, príncipe da casa de seu pai entre os simeonitas.15 O nome da mulher midianita que foi morta, era Cosbi, filha de Zur. Ele era cabeça do povo duma casa paterna em Midiã.16 Disse mais Jeová a Moisés:17 Afligi aos midianitas, e feri-os,18 porque vos afligiram com as suas ciladas, que enganosamente planejaram contra vós no tocante a Peor, e no tocante a Cosbi, sua irmã, filha do príncipe de Midiã, a qual foi morta no dia da praga no caso de Peor.

1 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,2 Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.3 And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,4 Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.6 And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses, and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.7 And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst; of the multitude, and taking a dagger,8 Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel:9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.10 And the Lord said to Moses:11 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.12 Therefore say to him: Behold I give him the peace of my covenant,13 And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.14 And the name of the Israelite, was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince the kindred and tribe of Simeon.15 And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites.16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:17 Let the Madianites find you enemies, and slay you them:18 Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.