...right? In the King James version, we read in Numbers 25:4:
"And the Lord said unto Moses, `Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."
The Aramaic reads:
"And the Lord said unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people and expose them before the Lord in the daylight that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from the children of Israel.' "
The difference between exposing the corruption of a group's chiefs, and hanging them or their heads before God is quite dramatic.
"And the Lord said unto Moses, `Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."
The Aramaic reads:
"And the Lord said unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people and expose them before the Lord in the daylight that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from the children of Israel.' "
The difference between exposing the corruption of a group's chiefs, and hanging them or their heads before God is quite dramatic.