4 Mosebok 25

1 Med Israels-folket heldt til i Sittim, tok folket til å fljuga etter kvinnorne i Moab.

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

2 Og Moabs-kvinnorne bad deim til blotveitslorne åt guden sin; so åt dei med deim og bøygde kne for guden deira;

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 Israel tydde seg til Ba’al-Peor. Då vart Herren brennande harm på Israel,

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 og Herren sagde til Moses: «Tak med deg alle Israels hovdingar, og legg desse mennerne på stegl for Guds og alle manns augo, so Herrens brennande vreide kann vendast burt frå Israel!»

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 Og Moses sagde til styresmennerne i Israel: «Kvar av dykk skal slå i hel deim av folki sine som hev halde seg til Ba’al-Peor!»

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 Best det var, kom ein av Israels-sønerne med ei kvinna frå Midjan, og leidde henne heim til sitt eige folk midt for augo på Moses og heile Israels-lyden, med dei sat og syrgde i møtetjelddøri.

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 Då Pinehas, son åt Eleazar og soneson åt Aron, øvstepresten, såg det, steig han fram or lyden, og treiv eit spjot

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 og gjekk etter mannen inn i koven, og rende spjotet gjenom deim båe, mannen og kvinna, so det gjekk inn i livet hennar. Då stanna sotti som herja Israels-folket.

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 Men talet på deim som døydde i sotti, var fire og tjuge tusund.

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

10 Og Herren tala til Moses, og sagde:

And the Lord said to Moses,

11 «Pinehas, son åt Eleazar og soneson åt Aron, øvstepresten, hev vendt vreiden min burt frå Israels-folket; etter di han stod so strengt på min rett, vilde ikkje eg vera so streng at eg gjorde ende på Israels-borni.

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 Difor skal du segja honom at eg vil gjera samband med honom, so det skal ganga honom vel;

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

13 ævelegt prestedøme lovar eg honom og ætti hans etter honom, for di han var so vyrk for æra åt sin Gud og gjorde soning for Israels-folket.»

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 Den drepne israeliten, han som vart drepen i hop med den midjanitiske kvinna, heitte Zimri Saluson; han var formann for ei grein av Simeons-ætti.

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 Og midjanitkvinna som vart drepi, heitte Kozbi; ho var dotter åt Sur, som var hovding yver ei ættgrein av midjanitarne.

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 Og Herren tala til Moses, og sagde:

Then the Lord said to Moses,

17 «De skal søkja åt midjanitarne og slå deim ned;

Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

18 for dei sat um dykk og lagde svikråder mot dykk då det hende, dette med Peor og Kozbi, frenka deira, hovdingdotteri frå Midjan, som vart drepi den gongen sotti kom yver dykk for Peors skuld.»

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.