Numbers 25:14 - Exposition

Now the name of the Israelite. These details as to names seem to have been added as an after-thought, for they would naturally have been given in Numbers 25:11 , where the man and the woman are first mentioned. The woman's name is given again in Numbers 25:18 , as if for the first time. We may probably conclude that Numbers 25:14 , Numbers 25:15 were inserted into the narrative either by the hand of Moses himself at a later date, or possibly by some subsequent hand. Zimri. This was not an uncommon name, but the individual who bears it here is not elsewhere mentioned.