Then Abimelech said, ‘What have you done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.’
Numbers 25:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they harass you with their wiles with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor. American Standard Version (1901) 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 the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor. Common English Bible because they went after you by the deception they devised for you at Peor with Cozbi, the Midianite chief’s daughter and their sister, who was killed on the same day as the plague during the events at Peor. Catholic Public Domain Version for they, too, have behaved with hostility against you, and they have deceived you insidiously by means of the idol Peor, and by Cozbi, the daughter of a commander of Midian, their sister, who was struck down in the day of the scourge because of the sacrilege of Peor." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor. |
Then Abimelech said, ‘What have you done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.’
So the Lord God asked the woman, ‘What have you done? ’ And the woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’
Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, ordered that he be given food, and gave him land.
Then Moses asked Aaron, ‘What did these people do to you that you have led them into such a grave sin? ’
And the Lord inflicted a plague on the people for what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of a family in Midian.
After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.