Numbers - Chapter 25 | Good News Translation

  • 1. When the Israelites were camped at Acacia Valley, the men began to have sexual intercourse with the Moabite women who were there.
  • 2. These women invited them to sacrificial feasts, where the god of Moab was worshiped. The Israelites ate the food and worshiped the god
  • 3. Baal of Peor. So the LORD was angry with them
  • 4. and said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight, and then I will no longer be angry with the people."
  • 5. Moses said to the officials, "Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor."
  • 6. One of the Israelites took a Midianite woman into his tent in the sight of Moses and the whole community, while they were mourning at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence.
  • 7. When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up and left the assembly. He took a spear,
  • 8. followed the man and the woman into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them. In this way the epidemic that was destroying Israel was stopped,
  • 9. but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.
  • 10. The LORD said to Moses,
  • 11. "Because of what Phinehas has done, I am no longer angry with the people of Israel. He refused to tolerate the worship of any god but me, and that is why I did not destroy them in my anger.
  • 12. So tell him that I am making a covenant with him that is valid for all time to come.
  • 13. He and his descendants are permanently established as priests, because he did not tolerate any rivals to me and brought about forgiveness for the people's sin."
  • 14. The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the head of a family in the tribe of Simeon.
  • 15. The woman's name was Cozbi. Zur, her father, was chief of a group of Midianite clans.
  • 16. The LORD commanded Moses,
  • 17. "Attack the Midianites and destroy them,
  • 18. because of the evil they did to you when they deceived you at Peor, and because of Cozbi, who was killed at the time of the epidemic at Peor."
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