Moab Seduces Israel
1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, 2who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. 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 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 Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”
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, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 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.
10The Lord said to Moses, 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 tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 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 Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. 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 said to Moses, 17“Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them. 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.”
以色列人被誘犯罪
1以色列人駐紮在什亭期間，有些人與摩押女子行淫。 2那些女子邀這些人祭祀她們的神明，他們吃了祭物，並跪拜她們的神明。 3結果以色列與巴力·毗珥苟合。耶和華大怒， 4對摩西說：「把為首的人都抓起來，當著我的面在大白天處死他們，以消除我對以色列人的怒氣。」 5於是，摩西對以色列的審判官說：「你們各自把手下與巴力·毗珥苟合的人處死。」
6摩西和以色列全體會眾正在會幕門口痛哭的時候，有個以色列人當著他們的面，把一個米甸女子帶進自家的帳篷。 7亞倫祭司的孫子、以利亞撒的兒子非尼哈看見了，便起身離開會眾，拿著矛槍， 8跟著進入那人的帳篷，用槍刺透那對男女的腹部。以色列人當中的瘟疫馬上止住了， 9但已有兩萬四千人死於瘟疫。
10耶和華對摩西說： 11「亞倫祭司的孫子、以利亞撒的兒子非尼哈，消了我對以色列人的怒氣。因為在會眾中他與我一樣痛恨不貞，我才沒有憤然消滅他們。 12你告訴他，我要賜給他平安的約， 13使他和他的後代憑此約可以永遠做祭司，因為他為我除掉了不貞之人，為以色列人贖了罪。」
14與米甸女子一同被殺的以色列人名叫心利，是撒路的兒子，是西緬支派的一個族長。 15被殺的米甸女子名叫哥斯比，她父親蘇珥是米甸人的一個族長。 16耶和華對摩西說： 17「你要攻打米甸人，擊殺他們。 18因為他們心存惡意，在毗珥陷害你們，他們的姊妹——米甸首領的女兒哥斯比誘惑你們，她在毗珥事件招來瘟疫之日被殺。」
