| New King James Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab. | 1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, |
| 2They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. | 2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods. |
| 3So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel. | 3So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them. |
| 4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.” | 4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.” |
| 5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.” | 5So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.” |
| 6And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. | 6Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. |
| 7Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; | 7On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, 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 body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. | 8followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted, |
| 9And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. | 9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. |
| 10Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: | 10Then the LORD said to Moses, |
| 11“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal. | 11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal. |
| 12Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace; | 12Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace. |
| 13and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ” | 13It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.” |
| 14Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s house among the Simeonites. | 14The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. |
| 15And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a father’s house in Midian. | 15And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family. |
| 16Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: | 16And the LORD said to Moses, |
| 17“Harass the Midianites, and attack them; | 17“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead. |
| 18for they harassed you with their schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.” | 18For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.” |
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