4 Mose 25

1 Israel aber saß zu Sittim. Da befleckte sich das Volk durch Unzucht mit den Töchtern Moabs.

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

2 Diese luden das Volk zu ihren Götteropfern ein. Da aß das Volk und warf sich vor ihren Göttern nieder.

For 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.

3 Und Israel paarte sich zu Ehren des Baal Peor. Da ward der Herr über Israel zornig.

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

4 Und der Herr sprach zu Moses: "Nimm dieses Volkes Rädelsführer und setze sie dem Herrn, im Angesicht der Sonne, aus, daß die Zornesglut des Herrn von Israel lasse!"

Then 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.

5 Da sprach Moses zu den Stämmen Israels: "Töte jeder seine Leute, die sich zu Ehren Baal-Peors gepaart!"

So 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.

6 Da kam eben ein israelitischer Mann und führte seinen Stammesgenossen eine gewisse Midianiterin zu, unter den Augen des Moses und der ganzen israelitischen Gemeinde, die an ihren Zelttüren ohne Unterlaß weinten.

Then 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.

7 Dies sah Eleazars Sohn Pinechas, der Enkel des Priesters Aaron. Da trat er aus der Gemeinde hervor und nahm einen Speer.

And 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,

8 Dann ging er dem israelitischen Manne in das innere Gemach nach und durchstach beiden, dem israelitischen Mann und dem Weibe, den Unterleib. Da ward dem Blutbad unter den Israeliten Einhalt getan.

And 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.

9 Die Zahl der im Blutbad Gefallenen betrug 24.000.

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

10 Da sprach der Herr zu Moses also:

And the Lord said to Moses,

11 "Pinechas, der Sohn des Eleazar, des Priesters Aaron Enkel, hat von den Israeliten meinen Grimm gewendet, mit meinem Eifer unter ihnen eifernd. Und so habe ich die Israeliten nicht in meinem Eifer aufgerieben.

Through 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.

12 Darum künde! Ich nehme ihn nachträglich in meinen Bund auf.

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

13 Ihm und seinem Stamme nach ihm soll Priesterrecht für alle Zeit gesichert sein, dafür, daß er für seinen Gott geeifert und den Israeliten Sühne verschafft hat!"

And 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.

14 Der getötete israelitische Mann aber, der mit der Midianiterin erschlagen worden war, hieß Zimri, der Sohn Salus, des Fürsten einer Familie der Simeoniten.

Now 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.

15 Und das getötete midianitische Weib hieß Kozbi, die Tochter Surs, des Sippenhäuptlings einer midianitischen Familie.

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

16 Der Herr sprach zu Moses:

Then the Lord said to Moses,

17 "Befehdet die Midianiter! Schlagt sie!

Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

18 Denn sie befehden euch durch ihre Ränke, mit denen sie euch durch Peor umgarnt haben, und durch ihre Schwester Kozbi, diese midianitische Fürstentochter, die am Tage des Blutbades getötet ward, das wegen Peor angerichtet wurde." - Es war nach dem Blutbad.

For 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.