1 E nquanto Israel estava em Sitim, o povo começou a entregar-se à imoralidade sexual com mulheres moabitas,

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

2 q ue os convidavam aos sacrifícios de seus deuses. O povo comia e se prostrava perante esses deuses.

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

3 A ssim Israel se juntou à adoração a Baal-Peor. E a ira do Senhor acendeu-se contra Israel.

Israel joined himself to Baal Peor. Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.

4 E o Senhor disse a Moisés: “Prenda todos os chefes desse povo, enforque-os diante do Senhor, à luz do sol, para que o fogo da ira do Senhor se afaste de Israel”.

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

5 E ntão Moisés disse aos juízes de Israel: “Cada um de vocês terá que matar aqueles que dentre os seus homens se juntaram à adoração a Baal-Peor”.

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

6 U m israelita trouxe para casa uma mulher midianita, na presença de Moisés e de toda a comunidade de Israel, que choravam à entrada da Tenda do Encontro.

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.

7 Q uando Finéias, filho de Eleazar, neto do sacerdote Arão, viu isso, apanhou uma lança,

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.

8 s eguiu o israelita até o interior da tenda e atravessou os dois com a lança; atravessou o corpo do israelita e o da mulher. Então cessou a praga contra os israelitas.

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 stayed from the children of Israel.

9 M as os que morreram por causa da praga foram vinte e quatro mil.

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

10 E o Senhor disse a Moisés:

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

11 “ Finéias, filho de Eleazar, neto do sacerdote Arão, desviou a minha ira de sobre os israelitas, pois foi zeloso, com o mesmo zelo que tenho por eles, para que em meu zelo eu não os consumisse.

“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.

12 D iga-lhe, pois, que estabeleço com ele a minha aliança de paz.

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

13 D ele e dos seus descendentes será a aliança do sacerdócio perpétuo, porque ele foi zeloso pelo seu Deus e fez propiciação pelos israelitas”.

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.’”

14 O nome do israelita que foi morto com a midianita era Zinri, filho de Salu, líder de uma família simeonita.

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.

15 E o nome da mulher midianita que morreu era Cosbi, filha de Zur, chefe de um clã midianita.

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.

16 O Senhor disse a Moisés:

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

17 “ Tratem os midianitas como inimigos e matem-nos,

“Harass the Midianites, and strike them,

18 p orque trataram vocês como inimigos quando os enganaram no caso de Peor e de Cosbi, filha de um líder midianita, mulher do povo deles que foi morta pela praga que enviei por causa de Peor”.

for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived 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.”