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Chapter 25

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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1Israel stayed at Shittim, and the people began to go whoring with the daughters of Moab.

Notes (1)

Translation
Liznot is to go whoring, the same verb as the straying in Leviticus. Shittim is the place, the acacia place.

2They called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

3Israel yoked itself to Baal-peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yitzamed is yoked, fastened to. Baal-peor is the name as written: the Baal of Peor.

4Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and impale them for Yahweh in the face of the sun, so that Yahweh’s burning anger may turn back from Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Hoqa is to impale, to fix a body up in the open. Neged ha-shemesh is in the face of the sun.

5Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each of you kill his men who yoked themselves to Baal-peor.

6Look, a man of the sons of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman near to his brothers, before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.

7Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest saw, and he rose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand.

8He went after the man of Israel into the alcove and pierced the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her belly. The plague was held back from the sons of Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Qubbah is the alcove, the inner tent. Qevatah is her belly. The two words sit together. The piercing is through her belly.

9Those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Notes (1)

Translation
The number is twenty-four thousand, as written. It is not adjusted to any other total.

10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

11Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest has turned my rage back from the sons of Israel, because he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not finish the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

12Therefore say, Look, I give him my covenant of peace.

Notes (1)

Translation
Beriti shalom is my covenant of peace. Berit is covenant. See the glossary.

13It shall be for him, and for his seed after him, a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.

14The name of the man of Israel who was struck, who was struck with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, chief of a father’s house of the Simeonites.

15The name of the Midianite woman who was struck was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was head of the peoples of a father’s house in Midian.

16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

17Treat the Midianites as foes, and strike them,

18for they treated you as foes with their tricks, which they practiced on you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a chief of Midian, their sister, who was struck on the day of the plague on account of Peor.

Numbers

Chapter 25

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1Israel stayed at Shittim, and the people began to go whoring with the daughters of Moab.

Notes (1)

Translation
Liznot is to go whoring, the same verb as the straying in Leviticus. Shittim is the place, the acacia place.

2They called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

3Israel yoked itself to Baal-peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yitzamed is yoked, fastened to. Baal-peor is the name as written: the Baal of Peor.

4Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and impale them for Yahweh in the face of the sun, so that Yahweh’s burning anger may turn back from Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Hoqa is to impale, to fix a body up in the open. Neged ha-shemesh is in the face of the sun.

5Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each of you kill his men who yoked themselves to Baal-peor.

7Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest saw, and he rose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand.

8He went after the man of Israel into the alcove and pierced the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her belly. The plague was held back from the sons of Israel.

Notes (1)

Translation
Qubbah is the alcove, the inner tent. Qevatah is her belly. The two words sit together. The piercing is through her belly.

9Those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Notes (1)

Translation
The number is twenty-four thousand, as written. It is not adjusted to any other total.

10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12Therefore say, Look, I give him my covenant of peace.

Notes (1)

Translation
Beriti shalom is my covenant of peace. Berit is covenant. See the glossary.

13It shall be for him, and for his seed after him, a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.

14The name of the man of Israel who was struck, who was struck with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, chief of a father’s house of the Simeonites.

15The name of the Midianite woman who was struck was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was head of the peoples of a father’s house in Midian.

16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

17Treat the Midianites as foes, and strike them,