Nombres 25
1 Or, en ce temps-là Israël demeurait à Settim, et le peuple forniqua avec les filles de Moab,
While the Israelis were camped at a place called Acacia [Grove], some of the men caused themselves to become unacceptable to God by having sex with some of the women of the Moab [people-group who lived in that area].
2 Qui les appelèrent à leurs sacrifices; et eux en mangèrent et ils adorèrent leurs dieux,
Then those women invited the men to come when the sacrifices were being offered to their gods. The Israeli men [accepted]. They went to the feasts with the women and worshiped the gods of the Moab people-group.
3 Et Israël fut initié au culte de Béelphégor; et le Seigneur irrité,
By doing that, those Israeli people joined the women in worshiping the god Baal [add] the Moab people-group thought lived on Peor Mountain. That caused Yahweh to become very angry with his people.
4 Dit à Moïse: Prends tous les princes du peuple, et suspends-les à des potences à la face du soleil, afin que ma fureur se détourne d’Israël.
Yahweh said this to Moses/me: “Seize all the leaders of those men who are doing this and execute them while I am watching. Do that in the daytime. After you do that, I will no longer be angry with the Israeli people.”
5 Moïse dit donc aux juges d’Israël: Que chacun tue ses proches, qui ont été initiés au culte de Béelphégor.
So Moses/I said to the other Israeli leaders, “Each of you must execute your men who have joined [others] in worshiping Baal.”
6 Et voilà qu’un des enfants d’Israël entra devant ses frères chez une prostituée madianite, Moïse le voyant, ainsi que toute la multitude des enfants d’Israël, qui pleuraient devant la porte du tabernacle.
[But later], while Moses/I and many [HYP] other people were crying at the entrance of the Sacred Tent, while they/we were watching, one of the Israeli men brought a woman from the Midian people-group into his tent [and started to have sex with her].
7 Ce qu’ayant vu Phinéès, fils d’Eléazar, fils d’Aaron, le prêtre, il se leva du milieu de la multitude, et, un poignard pris,
When Phinehas, who was the grandson of Aaron, saw that, he grabbed a spear
8 Il entra après l’Israélite, dans la tente de prostitution, perça tous deux, c’est-à-dire l’homme et la femme dans les parties secrètes: et la plaie fut détournée des enfants d’Israël;
and rushed into the man’s tent. He thrust the spear completely through the man’s body and into the woman’s belly [and killed both of them]. When he did that, the (plague/serious illness) [that had started to strike the Israelis] stopped.
9 Or, vingt-quatre mille hommes furent tués.
But 24,000 people had already died [from that plague].
10 Et le Seigneur dit à Moïse:
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
11 Phinéès, fils d’Eléazar, fils d’Aaron, le prêtre, a détourné ma colère des enfants d’Israël, parce qu’il a été animé de mon zèle contre eux, afin que moi-même je ne détruisisse point les enfants d’Israël dans mon zèle.
“Phinehas has caused me to stop being angry with the Israeli people, by being as eager as I am [to stop this sinful behavior]. I was ready to get rid of all the Israeli people because I was extremely angry, but Phinehas has prevented me from doing that.
12 C’est pourquoi dis-lui: Voici que je lui donne la paix de mon alliance;
Now tell him that I am making a special peace agreement with him.
13 Et ce sera tant pour lui que pour sa postérité un pacte perpétuel de sacerdoce, parce qu’il a été zélé pour son Dieu, et qu’il a expié le crime des enfants d’Israël.
In this agreement, I am promising to give to him and to his descendants the right/authority to be priests. I am doing this because [he showed that] he was very eager to honor me, his God, by stopping this sinful behavior. He has caused the Israeli people to become acceptable to me again by causing them to be forgiven for their sin.”
14 Or le nom de l’homme Israélite, qui fut tué avec la Madianite, était Zambri, fils de Salu, chef de la parenté et de la tribu de Siméon.
The Israeli man who was killed with the woman of the Moab people-group was named Zimri. He was the son of Salu, who was the leader of a family from the tribe of Simeon.
15 Et la femme madianite qui pareillement fut tuée, s’appelait Cozbi, fille de Sur, prince très noble des Madianites.
The woman’s name was Cozbi. She was the daughter of Zur, who was the leader of one of the clans of the Midian people-group.
16 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
17 Que les Madianites sentent que vous êtes leurs ennemis, et frappez-les,
“[Take your men and] attack the Midian people-group and kill them.
18 Parce qu’eux-mêmes aussi vous ont traités hostilement, et vous ont trompés insidieusement par l’idole de Phogor, et par Cozbi, fille du chef de Madian, leur sœur, qui fut frappée au jour de la plaie, à cause du sacrilège de Phogor.
They have become your enemies, because they tricked you Israeli people and induced/persuaded many of you to worship Baal, and because [one of your men had sex with] Cozbi, who was the daughter of a leader of the Midian people-group. She was killed at the time the plague [started because the people sinned] at Peor [Mountain].”
