Numbers 25:5
New International Version
So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”

New Living Translation
So Moses ordered Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death the men under your authority who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”

English Standard Version
And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.”

Berean Standard Bible
So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”

King James Bible
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.

New King James Version
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.”

New American Standard Bible
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who have become followers of Baal of Peor.”

NASB 1995
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor.”

NASB 1977
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor.”

Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor.”

Amplified Bible
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each one of you must kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor [in worship].”

Christian Standard Bible
So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”

American Standard Version
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Moshe said to the Judges of Israel: “Kill each man his men, those who are initiated to Baal Peor.”

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

Contemporary English Version
Moses told Israel's officials, "Each of you must put to death any of your men who worshiped Baal."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.

English Revised Version
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must kill the men who have joined in worshiping the god Baal of Peor."

Good News Translation
Moses said to the officials, "Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor."

International Standard Version
Then Moses ordered the judges of Israel, "Each one of you is to execute the men in his own tribe who joined the Baal-peor cult."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel: 'Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto the Baal of Peor.'

Literal Standard Version
And Moses says to [the] judges of Israel, “Each slays his men who are joined to Ba‘al-Peor.”

Majority Standard Bible
So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”

New American Bible
So Moses told the Israelite judges, “Each of you kill those of his men who have attached themselves to the Baal of Peor.”

NET Bible
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor."

New Revised Standard Version
And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you shall kill any of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”

New Heart English Bible
Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined to Baal-peor.

World English Bible
Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, 'Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.'

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Context
Moab Seduces Israel
4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.” 5So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”

Cross References
Exodus 32:27
He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.'"

Numbers 25:3
So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.


Treasury of Scripture

And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay you every one his men that were joined to Baalpeor.

a Midianitish

Numbers 25:14,15
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…

Numbers 22:4
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

Numbers 31:2,9-16
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people…

in the sight of Moses

Numbers 15:30,31
But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people…

Deuteronomy 29:19-21
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: …

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

weeping

Judges 2:4
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Ezra 9:1-4
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites…

Ezra 10:6-9
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away…

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Numbers 25
1. Israel at Shittim commit unfaithfulness and idolatry
6. Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi
10. God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood
16. The Midianites are to be troubled














Verse 5. - The judges of Israel. אֶלאּשֹׁפְטֵי. This is the first place where "the judges" are mentioned by this name (cf. Deuteronomy 1:16; Judges 2:16), but the verb is freely used in Exodus 18, in describing the functions of the officers appointed at Sinai. Every one his men. The men who were under his particular jurisdiction. This command given by Moses is not to be confounded with the previous command given to Moses to hang up all the chiefs. Moses only could deal with the chief, but it was within the power and the province of the judges to deal with ordinary offenders. It does not, however, appear how far either of these commands was put in practice.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So Moses
מֹשֶׁ֔ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

told
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

the judges
שֹׁפְטֵ֖י (šō·p̄ə·ṭê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

“Each of you must kill
הִרְגוּ֙ (hir·ḡū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent

all of his men
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 582: Man, mankind

who have joined in worshiping
הַנִּצְמָדִ֖ים (han·niṣ·mā·ḏîm)
Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 6775: To link, gird, to serve, contrive

Baal of Peor.”
פְּעֽוֹר׃ (pə·‘ō·wr)
Preposition | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1187: Baal of Peor', a Moabite god


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