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Numbers 25 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | Now Israel, at that time, dwelt in Shittim, and the people were fornicating with the daughters of Moab, | While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. | While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, | |
| 2 | who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate, and they adored their gods. | These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. | who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. | |
| 3 | And Israel was initiated into Baal of Peor. And so the Lord, being angry, | So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. | So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the LORD’s anger burned against them. | |
| 4 | said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people, and hang them on gallows against the sun, so that my fury may be averted from Israel.” | And the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.” | The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.” | |
| 5 | And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Let each one kill his neighbors, who have been initiated into Baal of Peor.” | And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.” | So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.” | |
| 6 | And behold, one of the sons of Israel entered, in the sight of his brothers, to a prostitute of Midian, within view of Moses and of all the crowd of the sons of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle. | And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. | Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. | |
| 7 | And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, had seen it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and, seizing a dagger, | When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand | When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand | |
| 8 | he entered after the Israelite man, into the brothel, and he pierced both of them at the same time, specifically, the man and the woman at the location of their genitals. And the scourge ceased from among the sons of Israel. | and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. | and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; | |
| 9 | And there were slain twenty-four thousand men. | Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. | but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. | |
| 10 | And the Lord said to Moses: | And the LORD said to Moses, | The LORD said to Moses, | |
| 11 | “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has averted my wrath from the sons of Israel. For he was moved against them by my zeal, so that I myself, in my zeal, might not wipe away the sons of Israel. | “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy. | “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. | |
| 12 | Because of this, say to him: Behold, I give to him the peace of my covenant. | Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, | Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. | |
| 13 | And the covenant of the everlasting priesthood shall be as much for him as for his offspring. For he was zealous on behalf of his God, and he has made expiation for the wickedness of the sons of Israel.” | and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’” | He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.” | |
| 14 | Now the name of the Israelite man, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader from the kinship and tribe of Simeon. | The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father’s house belonging to the Simeonites. | The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. | |
| 15 | Moreover, the Midianite woman, who was put to death together with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Zur, a most noble leader among the Midianites. | And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian. | And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Kozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family. | |
| 16 | And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: | And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, | The LORD said to Moses, | |
| 17 | “Let the Midianites perceive you as enemies, and strike them down, | “Harass the Midianites and strike them down, | “Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them. | |
| 18 | for they, too, have behaved with hostility against you, and they have deceived you insidiously by means of the idol Peor, and by Cozbi, the daughter of a commander of Midian, their sister, who was struck down in the day of the scourge because of the sacrilege of Peor.” | for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.” | They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.” | |
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