25 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and (A)she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

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25 Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas.(A)

These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.

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Now (A)when Phinehas (B)the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;

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

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11 (A)“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in (B)My zeal. 12 Therefore say, (C)‘Behold, I give to him My (D)covenant of peace; 13 and it shall be to him and (E)his descendants after him a covenant of (F)an everlasting priesthood, because he was (G)zealous for his God, and (H)made [a]atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:13 Lit. covering

11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites.(A) Since he was as zealous for my honor(B) among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace(C) with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood,(D) because he was zealous(E) for the honor(F) of his God and made atonement(G) for the Israelites.”(H)

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