Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 156

NUMBERS. 24--20 28-3 20 21 22 Then he turned towards Amalck and continued his poem and said; Ghz Quan: uf knalzla. ‘AmaIek was the Hrst of tho nations, But his posterity shall be destroyed. Next he looked towards the Keni and continued his poem and said; Wye Quan: nf the Emi. You place and fix your house in the rock, Yet the Same shall rage on the wall of your home! And concluding his poem he ex- claimed, ‘ Alas I who can stand against Gon? For he strikes with a crushing hand! Then woe to Ashur, and woe to Heber,-·· For they also at last shall fail l Then Balaam arose and went and

returned to his own country; and Balak also went away. israel hhurzh hg mush'; Qirlz. 25 But Israel remained at The Acacia Woods,1 and the people polluted themselves by fornication with the

2 women of Moab, who invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate, and worshipped

3 their gods, and Israel joined itself to Ba1—peor. Therefore the EVER- LIVING was angry with Israel, and

Seize the whole of the chiefs of the People, and hang them before the EVER- Lzvmc; in open sunlight, so that the burning angerrof the LORD may be turned from Israel,‘ 5 Consequently Moses said to the Each of you slay the men who have joined themselves to Bal-peer} But. a prince of the children of

Israel went and brought I to his brothers a Midianitess in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the Parliament of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door ofthe Hall of Assem ly. When Phinehas the son of Aliazer, in Hebrew, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw it, he arose from among the_,Parliaxnent, and took a javelin in his hand, and 8 went after the Israelite to his tent, and stabbed both the man of Israel and the woman through their bodies, and arrested the plague upon the children of Israel. But those who g died from the plague were twenty— four thousand. ¥rcmis¢ iu ¥I;ineb¤¤ for Zeal. Then the Evan-Lxvmo spoke to Moses, commanding; ‘ Phinehas the son of Aliazer, the

son of Aaron the priest, has turned death away from the children of Israel, by the zeal with which he was zealous for Me among them. There~ fore I command to give to him the bond of peace; and he and his heirs after him shall have an enduring priesthood, because he was zealous for his God ; therefore he shall expiate for the children .of Israel. But the name of the Israelite who

was skilled when the Midianitess was killed, was Zimri, the son of Salwa, an ancestral prince of the house of Simeon ;” and the name of the Midianitess was Kosbi, the daughter of Tzur, chief of a tribe of an ancestral house of Midian. Grhzr tu attach minima The Evan-Lrvmc spoke to Moses, commanding ;—- ‘Assail the Midianites, and cut

them off from you, for they troubled you by their plots, which they contrived against you in the ahhir of ,Kosbi the daughter of _a prince IO II I2 16 18 of Midian, their sister, who was slain at the time of the plague, about the Peor matter; when the plague 19 § fresh ®m¤1t¤ urirrrzb. The EvER—L1v1NG afterwards. also 28 commanded to Moses, and to Aliazer thescm of Aaron the priest,,saying; 1`alte a census of all the families of the children of israel, from the age of twenty years and upwards bythe houses of their ancestors, all in Israel capable of army service. Consequently Moses commanded

Aliazer the priest, while they were at the fords of Moab, by the Torrent near ]eriko, saying ;

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