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

a Midianitish

Numbers 25:14,15 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. . . .

Numbers 22:4 He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab.

Numbers 31:2,9-16 Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people. . . .

in the sight of Moses

Numbers 15:30,31 But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people: . . .

Deuteronomy 29:19-21 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty, . . .

Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

Jeremiah 8:12 They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 36:23 And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the penknife, and he cast it into the fire, that was upon the hearth, till all the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth.

Jeremiah 42:15-18 For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go into Egypt, and enter in to dwell there: . . .

Jeremiah 43:4-7 So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Juda. . . .

Jeremiah 44:16,17 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee: . . .

2 Peter 2:13-15 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: . . .

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

weeping

Judges 2:4 And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Ezra 9:1-4 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites. . . .

Ezra 10:6-9 And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and entered in thither: he ate no bread, and drank no water: for he mourned for the transgression of them that were come out of the captivity. . . .

Isaiah 22:12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Ezekiel 9:4-6 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof. . . .

Joel 2:17 Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

Context
Moab Seduces Israel
4Said 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. 5And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
Cross References
Exodus 32:27
And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate through the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and friend, and neighbour.

Numbers 25:3
And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,

Lexicon
So Moses
מֹשֶׁ֔ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 559: To utter, say

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

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 2026: To smite with deadly intent

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

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

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


Additional Translations
So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay you every one his men that were joined to Baalpeor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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