| King James Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. | 1While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. |
| 2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. | 2The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods. |
| 3And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. | 3So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD's anger burned against Israel. |
| 4And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. | 4The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD so that His burning anger may turn away from Israel." |
| 5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. | 5So Moses told Israel's judges, "Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor." |
| 6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. | 6An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. |
| 7And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; | 7When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, |
| 8And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. | 8followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman--through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped, |
| 9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. | 9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. |
| 10And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, | 10The LORD spoke to Moses, " |
| 11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. | 11Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with My zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My zeal. |
| 12Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: | 12Therefore declare: I grant him My covenant of peace. |
| 13And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. | 13It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites." |
| 14Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. | 14The name of the slain Israelite man, who was struck dead with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite ancestral house. |
| 15And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. | 15The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of an ancestral house in Midian. |
| 16And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, | 16The LORD told Moses: " |
| 17Vex the Midianites, and smite them: | 17Attack the Midianites and strike them dead. |
| 18For they vex 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, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. | 18For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor." |
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