And YY said unto Moshe, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before YY against the sun, that the fierce anger of YY may be turned away from Yisrael.
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that YY may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto YY in Givah of Saul, whom YY did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of Elohim;) that thy land be not defiled, which YY thy Elohim giveth thee for an inheritance.
Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the kohen, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Yisrael, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Yisrael in my jealousy.
And he delivered them into the hands of the Givonites, and they hanged them in the hill before YY : and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
And Y'howshu`a called for all Yisrael, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Certain men, the children of Bliyaal, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other elohim, which ye have not known;
For 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.
And Moshe chose able men out of all Yisrael, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.