Liber Numeri, 25

1. Morabatur autem Israel in Settim, et incepit populus fornicari cum filiabus Moab,

1. While Israel dwelt in Shittim the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.

2. quae vocaverunt populum ad sacrificia deorum suorum. Et illi comederunt et adoraverunt deos earum;

2. These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

3. et adhaesit Israel Baalphegor. Et iratus Dominus

3. So Israel yoked himself to Ba'al of Pe'or. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel;

4. ait ad Moysen: “Tolle cunctos principes populi et suspende eos coram Domino contra solem in patibulis, ut avertatur furor meus ab Israel”.

4. 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."

5. Dixitque Moyses ad iudices Israel: “Occidat unusquisque proximos suos, qui adhaeserunt Baalphegor”.

5. And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Every one of you slay his men who have yoked themselves to Ba'al of Pe'or."

6. Et ecce unus de filiis Israel intravit coram fratribus suis ad Madianitin, vidente Moyse et omni turba filiorum Israel, qui flebant ante fores tabernaculi conventus.

6. And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Mid'ianite 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 at the door of the tent of meeting.

7. Quod cum vidisset Phinees filius Eleazari filii Aaron sacerdotis, surrexit de medio congregationis et, arrepta lancea,

7. When Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation, and took a spear in his hand

8. ingressus est post virum Israelitem in cubiculum et perfodit ambos simul, virum scilicet et mulierem, in locis genitalibus; cessavitque plaga a filiis Israel.

8. and went after the man of Israel into the inner room, and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her body. Thus the plague was stayed from the people of Israel.

9. Et occisi sunt viginti quattuor milia hominum.

9. Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

10. Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen:

10. And the LORD said to Moses,

11. “Phinees filius Eleazari filii Aaron sacerdotis avertit iram meam a filiis Israel, quia zelo meo commotus est in medio eorum, ut non ipse delerem filios Israel in zelo meo.

11. "Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, 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.

12. Idcirco loquere ad eum: Ecce do ei pacem foederis mei,

12. Therefore say, `Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace;

13. et erit tam ipsi quam semini eius pactum sacerdotii sempiternum, quia zelatus est pro Deo suo et expiavit scelus filiorum Israel”.

13. 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.'"

14. Erat autem nomen viri Israelitae, qui occisus est cum Madianitide, Zamri filius Salu dux de cognatione et tribu Simeonis;

14. The name of the slain man of Israel, who was slain with the Mid'ianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, head of a fathers' house belonging to the Simeonites.

15. porro mulier Madianitis, quae pariter interfecta est, vocabatur Cozbi filia Sur principis tribus in Madian.

15. And the name of the Mid'ianite woman who was slain was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the head of the people of a fathers' house in Mid'ian.

16. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen dicens:

16. And the LORD said to Moses,

17. “Pugnate contra Madianitas et percutite eos,

17. "Harass the Mid'ianites, and smite them;

18. quia ipsi hostiliter egerunt contra vos et decepere insidiis per idolum Phegor et in negotio Cozbi filiae ducis Madian sororis eorum, quae percussa est in die plagae pro sacrilegio Phegor”.

18. for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Pe'or, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Mid'ian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague on account of Pe'or."