Numbers 25 · Verse 5

Numbers 25:5

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

Numbers 25:5 in other translations

BSBSo Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
WEBMoses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
ASVAnd Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.
YLTAnd Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, ‘Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.'
DARBYAnd Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay every one his men that have joined themselves to Baal-Peor.
BBESo Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.
WebsterAnd Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined to Baal-peor.

What does Numbers 25:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. judges of Israel--the seventy elders, who were commanded not only to superintend the execution within their respective jurisdictions, but to inflict the punishment with their own hands. (See on 1Sa 15:33).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Slay ye every one his men - In the different departments where you preside over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, slay all the culprits that shall be found.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 25:1-5

The friendship of the wicked is more dangerous than their enmity; for none can prevail against God's people if they are not overcome by their inbred lusts; nor can any enchantment hurt them, but the enticements of worldly interests and pleasures. Here is the sin of Israel, to which they are enticed by the daughters of Moab and Midian. Those are our worst enemies who draw us to sin, for that is the greatest mischief…

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Numbers 25:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
מֹשֶׁ֔הmo.ShehMosesH4872
אֶל\־'el-toH413
שֹׁפְטֵ֖יsho.fe.Tei[the] judges ofH8199
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
הִרְגוּ֙hir.GukillH2026
אִ֣ישׁ'isheveryoneH376
אֲנָשָׁ֔יו'a.na.Shavmen hisH582
הַנִּצְמָדִ֖יםha.nitz.ma.Dimwho have joined themselvesH6775
לְבַ֥עַלle.Va.'alto BaalH1187
פְּעֽוֹר\׃pe.'orPeorH1187

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Cross references for Numbers 25:5

  • 1 Kings 18:40

    And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

  • Exodus 18:21

    Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

  • Deuteronomy 13:15

    Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • Exodus 32:27-28

    And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

  • Deuteronomy 13:9

    But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Deuteronomy 13:13

    Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

  • Exodus 22:20

    He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

  • Deuteronomy 17:3-5

    And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

  • Deuteronomy 13:6

    If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

  • Exodus 18:25-26

    And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
judges.
Ex 18:21,25,26
Slay ye.
Ex 22:20; 32:27,28; De 13:6,9,13,15; 17:3-5; 1Ki 18:40

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Context

  • Numbers 25:4

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.

  • Numbers 25:5

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

  • Numbers 25:6

    And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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Numbers 25:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Entonces Moisés dijo á los jueces de Israel: Matad cada uno á aquellos de los suyos que se han allegado á Baal-peor.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Moïse dit aux juges d’Israël: Que chacun de vous tue ses hommes qui se sont attachés à Baal-Péor.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Mose sprach zu den Richtern Israels: Erschlaget ein jeder seine Leute, die sich an den Baal-Peor gehängt haben!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Dixitque Moyses ad judices Israël: Occidat unusquisque proximos suos, qui initiati sunt Beelphegor.