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Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 25

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This is a synoptic biblical text presenting Numbers 25:1–18 in four parallel versions: the English King James Version (with embedded Strong's Concordance reference numbers), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The passage narrates Israel's apostasy at Shittim, where Israelite men consorted with Moabite women and worshipped Baal-Peor, provoking God's wrath and a plague that killed 24,000. The crisis is halted when Phinehas, grandson of Aaron, kills an Israelite man and his Midianite companion mid-act with a spear, an act of zealous violence God rewards with a "covenant of peace" and a perpetual priestly covenant for Phinehas and his descendants. The text closes with God commanding Moses to treat the Midianites as enemies, citing their role in the seduction at Peor. The parallel-column format serves comparative textual or scholarly purposes, allowing readers to examine translation choices and variant readings across the major ancient witnesses to the Hebrew Bible — notably, the Septuagint renders "tent" (*qubbah*) as "furnace" (*kaminon*), a well-known crux. There is no original argument or commentary; the work is a raw source compilation for biblical philology or study.

Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 25

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