Numbers 25
1 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,
當以色列人住在史廷的時候，民眾開始與摩阿布女子行淫。
2 Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.
這些女子請民眾參與她們神祗的祭祀；民眾吃了供物，且朝拜了她們的神祗。
3 And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,
這樣以色列人就歸依了巴耳培敖爾，上主因此對以色列大發憤怒。
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.
上主對梅瑟說：「你捉住民眾中所有的罪魁，在光天化日之下，為上主對他們懸掛起來，好挽回上主對以色列的怒火」。
5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
梅瑟就吩咐以色列的各首長說：「你們每人應將自已家中歸依巴耳培敖爾的人殺死」。
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.
看，當梅瑟和以色列子民全會眾都在會幕門口流淚痛哭時，以色列子民中正有一人，當他們的面，帶了一個米德揚女人到他兄弟那裏去。
7 And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst; of the multitude, and taking a dagger,
大司祭亞郎的兒子厄肋阿匝爾的兒子丕乃哈斯一見，就由會眾中起來，順手拿了一把長槍，
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:
跟那以色列人進入臥室內，刺穿了他們兩人，即那以色列和那女人的肚腹；以色列子民間的災禍遂止息了。
9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
在這次災禍內，死去了二萬四千人。
10 And the Lord said to Moses:
上主於是訓示梅瑟說：
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.
「大司祭亞郎的孫子，厄肋阿匝爾床的丕乃哈斯，由以色列子民身上挽回了我的憤怒，因為他在他們中，懷著與我同樣的嫉邪的心，因此我沒有因我嫉邪之心消滅了以色列子民。
12 Therefore say to him: Behold I give him the peace of my covenant,
為此你應聲明：看，我與他結平安的盟約。
13 And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.
這為他和他的後裔，是永享司祭品位的盟約，因為他為了自己天主的緣故，嫉惡如仇，賠補了以色列子民的罪」。
14 And the name of the Israelite, was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince the kindred and tribe of Simeon.
那與米德揚女人一同被殺的人，名叫齊默黎，是撒路的兒子，西滿盎家族的族長。
15 And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites.
那被殺的米德揚女人，名叫苛次彼，是族爾的女兒；族爾是米德揚一部落的酋長。
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
事後，上主訓示梅瑟說：
17 Let the Madianites find you enemies, and slay you them:
「你應2圍攻米德揚人，打擊他們，因為他們用詭計打擊了你們，就是在培敖爾的事上，
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 the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.
並且他們的姊妹．米德揚酋長的女兒苛次彼的事上，欺騙了你們。──這女子已在培敖爾的事上，在災禍之日被殺」。
