1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; 2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel. 4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel."
5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."
6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand. 8 He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 11 "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace. 13 It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’"
14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites. 15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.
16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them; 18 for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."
1 Toe Israel in Sittim gebly het, het die volk begin hoereer met die dogters van die Moabiete --
2 die het die volk na die offers van hulle gode uitgenooi; en die volk het geëet en hulle neergebuig voor hulle gode.
3 So het Israel hom dan gekoppel aan Ba„l-Peor, en die toorn van die HERE het teen Israel ontvlam.
4 Toe sê die HERE vir Moses: Neem al die hoofde van die volk en hang die oortreders op in die volle son vir die HERE, sodat die toorngloed van die HERE van Israel afgewend kan word.
5 Daarop het Moses aan die rigters in Israel gesê: Slaan elkeen sy manne dood wat hulle aan Baäl-Peor gekoppel het.
6 En daar het 'n man gekom, een uit die kinders van Israel, en 'n Midianitiese vrou na sy volksgenote gebring, voor die oë van Moses en voor die oë van die hele vergadering van die kinders van Israel, terwyl hulle ween by die ingang van die tent van samekoms.
7 Toe P¡nehas, die seun van Ele sar, die seun van die priester A„ron, dit sien, het hy uit die vergadering uit opgestaan en 'n spies in sy hand geneem
8 en agter die Israelitiese man aan gegaan in die tent en hulle twee deurboor, die Israelitiese man en die vrou, in haar onderlyf. Daarna het die plaag onder die kinders van Israel opgehou.
9 En die wat deur die plaag gesterf het, was vier en twintig duisend.
10 Toe het die HERE met Moses gespreek en gesê:
11 P¡nehas, die seun van Ele sar, die seun van die priester A„ron, het my grimmigheid van die kinders van Israel afgewend deurdat hy my ywer onder hulle geywer het, sodat Ek die kinders van Israel in my ywer nie verteer het nie.
12 Daarom spreek: Kyk, Ek sluit met hom my vredeverbond,
13 en dit sal vir hom en sy nageslag n hom die verbond van ewige priesterskap wees, omdat hy vir sy God geywer en versoening vir die kinders van Israel gedoen het.
14 En die naam van die Israelitiese man wat verslaan is, wat saam met die Midianitiese vrou verslaan is, was Simri, die seun van Salu, owerste van 'n familie van die Simeoniete.
15 En die naam van die Midianitiese vrou wat verslaan is, was Kosbi, die dogter van Sur. Hy was stamhoof van 'n familie in M¡dian.
16 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek en gesê:
17 Behandel die Midianiete as vyand en verslaan hulle,
18 want hulle het julle as vyand behandel deur hulle liste wat hulle teen julle bedink het in die saak van Peor en in die saak van Kosbi, die dogter van die vors van M¡dian, hulle landgenoot, wat op die dag van die plaag weens Peor verslaan is.