| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New International Version |
| 1While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. | 1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, |
| 2For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down 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 joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the LORD was angry 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 the fierce anger of the LORD 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 said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to 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." |
| 6Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of 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 the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and 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 |
| 8and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked. | 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; |
| 9Those who died by the plague were 24,000. | 9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. |
| 10Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, | 10The LORD said to Moses, |
| 11"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy. | 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. |
| 12"Therefore say, 'Behold, I give him My covenant of peace; | 12Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. |
| 13and it shall be for him and his descendants after him, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.'" | 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." |
| 14Now the name of the slain man of Israel who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father's household among the Simeonites. | 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 Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was head of the people of a father's household 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. |
| 16Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, | 16The LORD said to Moses, |
| 17"Be hostile to the Midianites and strike them; | 17"Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them. |
| 18for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with which they have deceived you in the affair of Peor and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was slain on the day of the plague because of 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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