24:21. He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,
24:22. And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For a.s.sur shall take thee captive.
24:23. And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when G.o.d shall do these things?
24:24. They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the a.s.syrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.
24:25. And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.
Numbers Chapter 25
The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four thousand are slain. The zeal of Phinees.
25:1. And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,
25:2. Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their G.o.ds.
25:3. And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,
Initiated to Beelphegor... That is, they took to the worship of Beelphegor, an obscene idol of the Moabites, and were consecrated, as it were, to him.
25:4. Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.
25:5. And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
25:6. And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.
25:7. And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst of the mult.i.tude, and taking a dagger,
25:8. Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.
25:9. And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
25:10. And the Lord said to Moses:
25:11. Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.
25:12. Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant,
25:13. And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his G.o.d, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.
25:14. And the name of the Israelite, that was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe of Simeon.
25:15. And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most n.o.ble prince among the Madianites.
25:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
25:17. Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:
25:18. Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.
Numbers Chapter 26
The people are again numbered by their tribes and families.
26:1. After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:
26:2. Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war.
26:3. Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were
26:4. From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number of them:
26:5. Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the Phalluites:
26:6. And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites.
26:7. These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
26:8. The son of Phallu was Eliab.
26:9. His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord:
26:10. And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,
26:11. That when Core perished, his sons did not perish.
26:12. The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the family of the Namuelites: Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites: Jachim, of him is the family of the Jachimites:
26:13. Zare, of him is the family of the Zarites: Saul, of him is the family of the Saulites.
26:14. These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the whole number was twenty-two thousand two hundred.
26:15. The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon, of him is the family of the Sephonites: Aggi, of him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of him is the family of the Sunites:
26:16. Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the family of the Herites:
26:17. Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites: Ariel, of him is the family of the Arielites.
26:18. These are the families of Gad, of which the whole number was forty thousand five hundred.
26:19. The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land of Chanaan.
26:20. And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is the family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the Pharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites.
26:21. Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites.
26:22. These are the families of Juda, of which the whole number was seventy-six thousand five hundred.