Baiziraela ku Peori
1 Kukati Baiziraela batjigele mu Shitimu balume bakatangisa kuthama bufukula ne bakololokadzi be Moabu. 2 Bakadzi ibaba bakakokela Baiziraela ku mishingo ye kupisa zwibhayilo ne kunamata midzimu yabo ye Moabu. Ngono Baiziraela bakaja bakabuya bakanamata midzimu ye Moabu. 3 Ndizo Baiziraela bakazwibhatshanya na Bhaale we Peori. Ngono Yahwe bakazhala bushongola kwazo ngekwe Iziraela. 4 Yahwe bakadwa Mushe bakati, “Tola batungamili bose be Iziraela ubabulaye nge kubalembeledza mbeli kwa Yahwe kuli masikati, kuti bushongola gwa Yahwe gushanduke gudwe mu Iziraela.” 5 Ngono Mushe kadwa basumikilisi be Iziraela kati, “Mmwe ne mmwe wenyu abulaye bathu babe bose bakazwibhatshanya na Bhaale we Peori.”
6 Ngono bonani, mmwe nlume we Iziraela kazha ne nkadzi we Midiyani kangina naye mu nshasha uwe, Mushe ne gubungano lose le Iziraela bakalinga. Baiziraela bakabe batjalila bali pa nkoba we nshasha wa Yahwe we bushanganilo. 7 Kukati Finihasi nkololo wa Eleazari, mwana we mwana we mpirisiti Aroni ebona ikoku, kamilika mu gubungano akabhata thumo, 8 kanginilila nlume uwoyo ne nkadzi mukati kwe nshasha, kababhaya bose ngethumo kang'ompela. Ndiyo zila yakamisa tjiga tjakabe tjishingikala mu bathu be Iziraela. 9 Nenguba kwakajalo, bathu bakabe bafa kale nge tjiga bakabe bali zwiwulu zwili makumi mabili ana banna (24 000).
10 Ngono Yahwe bakadwa Mushe bakati, 11 “Finihasi nkololo wa Eleazari nkololo we mpirisiti Aroni, wapodza moyo wangu mu bushongola gwandabe ndili igo mu bathu be Iziraela nge kumusa meya kungapa pakati kwabo nge kwangu mu kunamata kwabo mindzimu ipoga kuzhe kwangu ndizo ndisalobesa Baiziraela ngekwe fupa langu. 12 Ndizo ubudze Finihasi uti, ‘Bona, ndothama tjidumano tje mbakiso naye. 13 Tjowobe tjidumano tjitje ne zwizekugwana zwizwe zwinowozha. Tjidumano tje bupirisiti nge kusingapele, ngobe wathamila fupa Baiziraela ebathamila fupa ngekwe Ndzimu uwe. Kabe ethamila bathu be Iziraela gadzano na Yahwe.’ ”
14 Nlume we Iziraela wakabulawa ana nkadzi we Midiyani zina lile lakabe liyi Zimiri nkololo wa Salu nsholo we nsha wa tate babe mu ludzi gwa Simiyoni. 15 Zina la iwoyo we Midiyani liyi Khozibhi nkololokadzi wa Zuri, wakabe ali nsholo we nsha wa tate babe mu Midiyani.
16 Yahwe bakadwa Mushe bakati, 17 “Udziyidze Bamidiyani ubalobese, 18 Ngobe bakamudziyidza nge bupitipiti gwabo kamutjebela mu mija ye Peori. Ne mu nshingo we lufu gwe hazwadzi yabo Khozibhi nkololokadzi we ntungamili we Midiyani, wakabulawa mu zhuba le tjiga tjakashingikala nge mija ye Peori.”
1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
6 ¶ And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it , he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
10 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. 14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
16 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.