Previous Chapter Full Page Full Page Next Chapter

Numbers 25 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Num 25:1

Num 25:1Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

Num 25:2

Num 25:2For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

Num 25:3

Num 25:3So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

Num 25:4

Num 25:4Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

Num 25:5

Num 25:5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.

Num 25:6

Num 25:6Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Num 25:7

Num 25:7And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,

Num 25:8

Num 25:8And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

Num 25:9

Num 25:9But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

The Zeal of Phinehas

Num 25:10

Num 25:10And the Lord said to Moses,

Num 25:11

Num 25:11Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

Num 25:12

Num 25:12So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:

Num 25:13

Num 25:13And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.

Num 25:14

Num 25:14Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites.

Num 25:15

Num 25:15And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

Num 25:16

Num 25:16Then the Lord said to Moses,

Num 25:17

Num 25:17Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

Num 25:18

Num 25:18For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.
Translation Copyright Logo

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.