Pinchas, פִּינְחָס — 11/14/26
Torah: Numbers 25:10 - 26:4 (13)
Gospel: ? (?)
Passages
- Torah: Numbers 25:10 - 26:4
- Gospel: ?
Torah — Numbers 25:10 - 26:4
LEB translation
25:10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned away my anger from among the Israelites when he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not destroy the Israelites with my jealousy.
25:12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I am giving to him my covenant of peace,
25:13 and it will be for him and his offspring after him a covenant of an eternal priesthood because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.’”
25:14 The name of the man of Israel who was struck with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of the family of the Simeonites.
25:15 The name of the Midianite woman who was struck was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a leader of a tribe of the family in Midian.
25:16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
25:17 “Attack the Midianites and strike them
25:18 because they were attacking you with their deception, with which they have deceived you on the matter of Peor and on the matter of Cozbi the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was struck on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor.”
26:1 A New Census
And it happened after the plague, Yahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,
26:2 “Take a census of the community of the Israelites from those twenty years old and above, according to their families, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”
26:3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying,
26:4 “Take a census of the community from those twenty years old and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.”
The Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt were: