| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. | 1While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women, |
| 2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. | 2who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods. |
| 3And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. | 3The people joined the Baal-peor cult. As a result, the anger of the LORD flared up 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. | 4so the LORD told Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight for the LORD, so the LORD's burning anger may be withdrawn from Israel." |
| 5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. | 5Then Moses ordered the judges of Israel, "Each one of you is to execute the men in his own tribe who joined the Baal-peor cult." |
| 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. | 6That very moment, one of the Israelis arrived, bringing to his brothers one of the Midianite women, right in front of Moses and the entire community of Israel, 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 Eleazar's son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up from the middle of the community, grabbed a javelin 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 Israeli man inside his tent, and impaled the two of them—the Israeli man and the woman—right through both of them and into her abdomen. Then the plague infecting the Israelis was brought to a halt. Nevertheless, |
| 9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. | 924,000 people died because of the plague. |
| 10And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, | 10The LORD told 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. | 11"Eleazar's son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from Israel. Because his zealousness reflected my own zeal for them, I didn't consume Israel in my jealousy. |
| 12Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: | 12Therefore, I'm certainly going to be giving 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. | 13for him and for his descendants after him, too, a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelis." |
| 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. | 14Now the name of the Israeli man who was slain, along with the Midianite woman, was Salu's son Zimri, a leader from the tribe of Simeon. |
| 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 woman who was slain, that is, the Midianite woman, was named Cozbi. She was the daughter of Zur, a leader of one of the ancestral houses of Midian. |
| 16And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, | 16Later, the LORD ordered Moses, |
| 17Vex the Midianites, and smite them: | 17"Attack the Midianites and execute them, |
| 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. | 18because they've acted deceitfully, bringing trouble to you in this incident at Peor with Cozbi, daughter of a prince from Midian, who was killed during the plague that came about because of the incident at Peor." |
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