Some Thoughts on Numbers 25:8

NWT 2013: "Then he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her genital parts. At that the scourge on the Israelites was halted."

NET Bible: "and went after the Israelite man into the tent^[a] and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen.^[b] So the plague was stopped from the Israelites."

Douay-Rheims: "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"

ESV: "and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped."

Jacob Milgrom (Numbers):


See https://www.academia.edu/42236411/Stefan_C._Reif_What_Enraged_Phinehas_A_Study_of_Num._25_8_Journal_of_Biblical_Literature_vol._90_no._2_June_1971_200-206