Numbers 25 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Yisra’ĕ

² and they invited the people to the slaughterings of their mighty ones, and the people ate and bowed down to their mighty ones.

³ Thus Yisra’ĕ

⁴ And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up before יהוה, before the sun, so that the burning displeasure of יהוה  turns away from Yisra’ĕ

⁵ And Mosheh said to the judges of Yisra’ĕ

⁶ And see, one of the children of Yisra’ĕ

⁷ And when Pineḥ

⁸ and he went after the man of Yisra’ĕ

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

¹⁰ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh, saying,

¹¹ “Pineḥ

¹² “Therefore say, ‘See, I am giving him My covenant of peace,

¹³ and it shall be to him and to his seed after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was ardent for his Elohim, and made atonement for the children of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁴ And the name of the Yisra’ĕ

¹⁵ And the name of the Miḏ

¹⁶ And יהוה  spoke to Mosheh, saying,

¹⁷ “Distress the Miḏ

¹⁸ for they distressed you with their tricks with which they deceived you in the matter of Peʽ