Bilingual reading

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.

The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”

Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.

He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.

It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”

Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.

The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

“Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”

وأَقامَ إِسْرائيلُ بِشِطِّيم، وأَخَذَ الشَّعْبُ يَزْني مع بَناتِ موآب

فدَعَونَ الشَّعبَ إِلى ذَبائِحِ آلِهَتِهِنَّ، فأَكَلَ الشَّعبُ وسَجَدَ لآلِهَتِهِنَّ

وتَعَلَّقَ إِسْرائيلُ بِبَعْلِ فَغور، فٱستَشاطَ غَضَبُ الرَّبِّ على إِسْرائيل

فقالَ الرَّبُّ لِموسى: «خُذْ مَعَكَ جَميعَ زُعَماءِ الشَّعبِ وٱشنُقهُم لِلرَّبِّ أَمامَ الشَمس، فيَنصَرِفَ ٱضطِرامُ غَضَبِ الرَّبِّ عن إِسْرائيل»

فقالَ موسى لِقُضاةِ إِسْرائيل: «أُقتُلوا كُلَّ واحِدٍ مَن تَعَلَّقَ مِن قَومِه بِبَعْلَ فَغور»

فإِذا رَجُلٌ مِن بَني إِسْرائيلَ قد أَقبَلَ وقَدَّمَ إِلى إِخوَتِه تِلكَ المَرأَةَ المِديَنِيَّةَ على عَينَي موسى وعُيونِ كُلِّ جَماعةِ بَني إِسْرائيل، وهُمْ يَبْكونَ عِندَ بابِ خَيمةِ المَوعِد

فلَمَّا رأَى فِنْحاسُ بنُ أَلِعازارَ بنِ هارونَ الكاهِن، قامَ مِن وَسْطِ الجَماعة وأَخَذَ رُمْحًا في يَدِه

ودَخَلَ وَراءَ الرَّجُلِ الإِسْرائيليِّ إِلى المُخدَع، فطَعَنَهما كِلَيهِما، الرَّجُلَ الإِسْرائيلِيَّ والمَرأَةَ في بَطنِها، فكَفَّتِ الضَّربَةُ عن بَني إِسْرائيل

وكانَ الَّذينَ ماتوا بِالضَّربَةِ أَربَعَةً وعِشْرينَ أَلفًا

وكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ موسى قائلًا

«إِنَّ فِنْحاسَ ٱبنَ أَلِعازارَ بنِ هارونَ الكاهنِ قد صَرَفَ سُخْطي عن بَني إِسْرائيلَ بِغَيرةٍ كغَيرَتي فيما بَينَهم، حتَّى لا أُفنِيَ بَني إِسْرائيلَ بِغَيرَتي

فلِذٰلك قُلْ: هاءَنَذا مُعْطيه عَهْدَ سَلامي

فيَكونُ لَه ولِنَسلِه مِن بَعدِه عَهْدَ كَهَنوتٍ أَبَدِيٍّ جَزاءَ غَيرَتِه لإِلٰهِه وتَكْفيرِه عن بَني إِسْرائيل»

وكانَ ٱسمُ الرَّجُلِ الإِسْرائيلِيِّ القَتيلِ الَّذي قُتِلَ مع المِديَنِيَّةِ زِمْرِيَ بنَ سالو، وهو رَئيسُ بَيتٍ مِنَ الشِّمْعونِيِّين

وٱسمُ المَرأَةِ المِديَنِيَّةِ المَقْتولةِ كُزْبيَ بِنتَ صور، وهو زَعيمُ عَشائِرِ بَيتِ أَبٍ في مِديَن

وكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ موسى قائِلًا

«ضَيِّقوا على المِديَنِيِّينَ وٱضرِبوهم

لأَنَّهم ضَيَّقوا علَيكم بِمَكرِهِمِ الَّذي مَكَروه فيكم في أَمرِ فَغورَ وأَمرِ كُزْبِيَ بِنْتِ زَعيمِ مِديَن، أُختِهمِ الَّتي قُتِلَت يَومَ الضَّربَةِ لِما جَرى في فَغور»

وكانَ بَعدَ الضَّربةِ أَن