Çölde Sayım 25

¹İsrail Sattein’da konakladı; ve halk, Moab’ın kızlarıyla fuhuş yaparak kutsallıktan çıkıp bayağılaşmaya başladı.

²Bu kızlar halkı kendi putlarının kurbanlarına davet ettiler; halk da onların kurbanlarından yedi ve onların putlarına tapındı.

³Böylece İsrail kendini Beelfegor’un gizemine bağladı; ve Rab’bin öfkesi İsrail’e karşı büyük bir gazapla alevlendi.

⁴Rab Musa’ya şöyle dedi: «Halkın bütün önderlerini al ve Rab için onları güneşe karşı herkesin gözü önünde teşhir ederek ibretlik kıl; böylece Rab’bin kızgın öfkesi İsrail’den uzaklaşsın.»

⁵Musa İsrail oymaklarına, «Her biriniz kendi adamlarından Beelfegor’un gizemine katılmış olan yakınlarını öldürsün» dedi.

⁶Ve işte, İsrail oğullarından bir adam gelerek, Musa’nın ve tüm İsrail oğulları topluluğunun gözü önünde, onlar Tanıklık Çadırı’nın kapısında ağlamaktayken, kendi kardeşini Midyanlı kadına takdim edip getirdi.

⁷Kâhin Harun oğlu Eleazar oğlu Pinehas bunu görünce topluluğun ortasından ayağa kalktı ve eline bir mızrak aldı.

⁸İsrailli adamın arkasından kubbeli odaya girdi ve her ikisini, hem İsrailli adamı hem de kadını tam rahminin içinden mızrakla delip geçti; böylece ölümcül salgın İsrail oğullarından dindi.

⁹Salgından ölenlerin sayısı yirmi dört bin kişiye ulaştı.

¹⁰Rab Musa’ya konuşup şöyle dedi:

¹¹«Kâhin Harun oğlu Eleazar oğlu Pinehas, onların arasında benim kıskançlık ve gayretimi göstererek öfkemi İsrail oğullarının üzerinden uzaklaştırdı; bu yüzden İsrail oğullarını kendi kıskançlığımla yok etmedim.

¹²Bu nedenle ona şöyle de: “İşte, onunla bir barış antlaşması yapıyorum.

¹³Bu antlaşma, kendisi ve kendisinden sonraki soyu için sonsuz bir kâhinlik antlaşması olacak; çünkü Tanrısı için kıskançlıkla gayret gösterdi ve İsrail oğulları için kefaret sağladı.”»

¹⁴Midyanlı kadınla birlikte vurularak öldürülen İsrailli adamın adı, Şimon kabilesinin aile ocaklarından birinin önderi olan Salo oğlu Zambri’ydi.

¹⁵Vurularak öldürülen Midyanlı kadının adı ise Sur’un kızı Chasbi’ydi; Sur, Midyan’daki bir halkın, yani Ommoth kabile soyunun önderiydi.

¹⁶Rab Musa’ya konuşup şöyle dedi: «İsrail oğullarına söyle ve de ki:

¹⁷“Midyanlılara düşmanlık edin ve onları vurun.

¹⁸Çünkü onlar Fogor olayında ve Fogor olayından ötürü gerçekleşen salgın gününde vurulup öldürülen Midyanlı bir önderin kızı olan kız kardeşleri Chasbi olayında, size kurdukları hilelerle size düşmanlık ettiler.”»

¹ΚΑΙ κατέλυσεν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν Σαττείν· καὶ ἐβεβηλώθη ὁ λαὸς ἐκπορνεῦσαι εἰς τὰς θυγατέρας Μωάβ.

²καὶ ἐκάλεσαν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὰς θυσίας τῶν εἰδώλων αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔφαγεν ὁ λαὸς τῶν θυσιῶν αὐτῶν καὶ προσεκύνησαν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν.3 καὶ ἐτελέσθη ᾿Ισραὴλ τῷ Βεελφεγώρ· καὶ ὠργίσθη θυμῷ Κύριος τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁴καὶ εἶπε Κύριος τῷ Μωυσῇ· λαβὲ πάντας τοὺς ἀρχηγοὺς τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ παραδειγμάτισον αὐτοὺς Κυρίῳ κατέναντι τοῦ ἡλίου, καὶ ἀποστραφήσεται ὀργὴ θυμοῦ Κυρίου ἀπὸ ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁵καὶ εἶπε Μωυσῆς ταῖς φυλαῖς ᾿Ισραήλ· ἀποκτείνατε ἕκαστος τὸν οἰκεῖον αὐτοῦ τὸν τετελεσμένον τῷ Βεελφεγώρ.

⁶Καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄνθρωπος τῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐλθὼν προσήγαγε τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὴν Μαδιανῖτιν ἐναντίον Μωυσῆ καὶ ἐναντίον πάσης συναγωγῆς υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἔκλαιον παρὰ τὴν θύραν τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου.

⁷καὶ ἰδὼν Φινεὲς υἱὸς ᾿Ελεάζαρ υἱοῦ ᾿Ααρὼν τοῦ ἱερέως ἐξανέστη ἐκ μέσου τῆς συναγωγῆς καὶ λαβὼν σειρομάστην ἐν τῇ χειρὶ

⁸εἰσῆλθεν ὀπίσω τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ ᾿Ισραηλίτου εἰς τὴν κάμινον καὶ ἀπεκέντησεν ἀμφοτέρους, τόν τε ἄνθρωπον τὸν ᾿Ισραηλίτην καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα διὰ τῆς μήτρας αὐτῆς· καὶ ἐπαύσατο ἡ πληγὴ ἀπὸ υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁹καὶ ἐγένοντο οἱ τεθνηκότες ἐν τῇ πληγῇ τέσσαρες καὶ εἴκοσι χιλιάδες.

¹⁰Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων·

¹¹Φινεὲς υἱὸς ᾿Ελεάζαρ υἱοῦ ᾿Ααρὼν τοῦ ἱερέως κατέπαυσε τὸν θυμόν μου ἀπὸ υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν τῷ ζηλῶσαί μου τὸν ζῆλον ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ οὐκ ἐξανήλωσα τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν τῷ ζήλῳ μου.

¹²οὕτως εἶπον· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ δίδωμι αὐτῷ διαθήκην εἰρήνης,

¹³καὶ ἔσται αὐτῷ καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ μετ’ αὐτὸν διαθήκη ἱερατείας αἰωνία, ἀνθ’ ὧν ἐζήλωσε τῷ Θεῷ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξιλάσατο περὶ τῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁴τὸ δὲ ὄνομα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ ᾿Ισραηλίτου τοῦ πεπληγότος, ὃς ἐπλήγη μετὰ τῆς Μαδιανίτιδος, Ζαμβρὶ υἱὸς Σαλώ, ἄρχων οἴκου πατριᾶς τῶν Συμεών·

¹⁵καὶ ὄνομα τῇ γυναικὶ τῇ Μαδιανίτιδι τῇ πεπληγυίᾳ Χασβί, θυγάτηρ Σοὺρ ἄρχοντος ἔθνους ᾿Ομμώθ, οἴκου πατριᾶς ἐστι τῶν Μαδιάμ.

¹⁶Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων· λάλησον τοῖς υἱοῖς ᾿Ισραὴλ λέγων·

¹⁷ἐχθραίνετε τοῖς Μαδιηναίοις καὶ πατάξατε αὐτούς,

¹⁸ὅτι ἐχθραίνουσιν αὐτοὶ ὑμῖν ἐν δολιότητι, ὅσα δολιοῦσιν ὑμᾶς διὰ Φογὼρ καὶ διὰ Χασβὶ θυγατέρα ἄρχοντος Μαδιὰμ ἀδελφὴν αὐτῶν τὴν πεπληγυῖαν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς πληγῆς διὰ Φογώρ.

¹And Israel sojourned in Sattin, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.

²And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshiped their idols.

³And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

⁴And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples [of judgment] for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.

⁵And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor.

⁶And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

⁷And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand,

⁸and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

⁹And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

¹⁰And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

¹¹Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

¹²Thus do thou say [to him], Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:

¹³and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

¹⁴Now the name of the smitten Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Madianitish woman, [was] Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon.

¹⁵And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, [was] Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.

¹⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying,

¹⁷Plague the Madianites as enemies, and smite them,

¹⁸for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was smitten in the day of the plague because of Phogor.