Numbers [In the desert] 25:1-10

¹Israel God prevails stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab From father;

²for they called the people to the sacrifices of their deities. The people ate and bowed down to their deities.

³Israel God prevails joined himself to Baal Peor. Adonai ’s anger burned against Israel God prevails.

⁴Adonai said to Moses Drawn out, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Adonai before the sun, that the fierce anger of Adonai may turn away from Israel God prevails.”

⁵Moses Drawn out said to the judges of Israel God prevails, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

⁶Behold, one of the children of Israel God prevails came and brought to his brothers a Midianite Descendant of Strife woman in the sight of Moses Drawn out, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel God prevails, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting. (Maftir ·Conclusion·)

⁷When Pinchas Bronze skin, the son of Eleazar Help of God, the son of Aaron Light-bringer the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.

⁸He went after the man of Israel God prevails into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel God prevails, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel God prevails.

⁹Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,