| Holman Christian Standard Bible | New International Version |
| 1While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. | 1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, |
| 2The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods. | 2who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. |
| 3So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD's anger burned against Israel. | 3So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the LORD's anger burned against them. |
| 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." | 4The 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." |
| 5So Moses told Israel's judges, "Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor." | 5So 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." |
| 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. | 6Then 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. |
| 7When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, | 7When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand |
| 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, | 8and 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; |
| 9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. | 9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. |
| 10The LORD spoke to Moses, " | 10The LORD said to Moses, |
| 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. | 11"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. |
| 12Therefore declare: I grant him My covenant of peace. | 12Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. |
| 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." | 13He 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." |
| 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. | 14The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. |
| 15The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of an ancestral house in Midian. | 15And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Kozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family. |
| 16The LORD told Moses: " | 16The LORD said to Moses, |
| 17Attack the Midianites and strike them dead. | 17"Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them. |
| 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." | 18They 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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