5So Moses said to Israel's judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor."


In Context

2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods.

3 So Israel joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And the Lord 's anger burned against them.

4 The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord , so that the Lord 's fierce anger may turn away from Israel."

5 So Moses said to Israel's judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor."

6 Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand

Numbers 25:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay every one his men that have joined themselves to Baal-Peor.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined to Baal-peor.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:5Moses said to the judges of Israel, |Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, 'Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:5And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay you every one his men that were joined to Baalpeor.