Bamidbar 25:10

10 And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

Bamidbar 25:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 25:10

And the Lord spake unto Moses
Out of the cloud, or out of the tabernacle, at the door of which Moses now was, ( Numbers 25:6 ) , this was after so many had died of the plague, and after the fact of Phinehas, by which it was stopped: saying; as follows.

Bamidbar 25:10 In-Context

8 And he went after the ish Yisroel into the inner tent, and thrust through both of them, the ish Yisroel, and the isha through her belly. So the maggefah (plague) was stopped from the Bnei Yisroel.

9 And those that were the mesim (dead ones) in the maggefah (plague) were twenty and four thousand.

10 And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

11 Pinchas ben Eleazar ben Aharon HaKohen, hath turned My wrath away from the Bnei Yisroel, when he had kanous (zealousness) with My kanous among them, that I consumed not the Bnei Yisroel in My kina (jealousy, zeal, vengeance).

12 Therefore say, Hineni, I am making unto him My Brit (Covenant) of Shalom;