24:19. Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city. 24:20. And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed. 24:21. He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock, 24:22. And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive. 24:23. And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things? 24:24. They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish. 24:25. And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came. Numbers Chapter 25 The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four thousand are slain. The zeal of Phinees. 25:1. And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, 25:2. Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods. 25:3. And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry, Initiated to Beelphegor... That is, they took to the worship of Beelphegor, an obscene idol of the Moabites, and were consecrated, as it were, to him. 25:4. Said 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. 25:5. And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor. 25:6. And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle. 25:7. And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a dagger, 25:8. Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel. 25:9. And there were slain four and twenty thousand men. 25:10. And the Lord said to Moses: 25:11. Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal. 25:12. Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant, 25:13. And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.