Talmud su Giosuè 13:78

When Israel came to exact vengeance from Midian, they found there Bileam ben Beor. What did he do there? He came to collect his wages for the 24’000 of Israel who died at Shittim. Phineas told him, you followed neither your Creator nor Balaq. You did not follow your Creator, Who told you, do not go with Balaq’s emissaries, but you went. You did not follow Balaq who told you to come and curse Israel, but you blessed them. I also will not hold back your wages. That is what is written: The Children of Israel slew Bileam ben Beor the sorcerer on top of their slain²³⁰Jos. 13:22. The masoretic text, as represented by the Aleppo and Leningrad codices, reads אל־חלליהן, not על־. One finds על־חלליהן in Num. 31:8, not referring to Bileam but to the five tribal heads of Midian which in Num. are titled “kings” but in Jos.“princes of Sihon”. Jos. describes the situation before the arrival of the Children of Israel, Num. the actual situation after the fall of Sihon. One may read the following explanations as a polemic against opinions like that of M. Noth (Das Buch Josua, Tübingen 1938, p. 50) that אל־חלליהן is a gloss, taken from Num. 31:8 and inserted in the wrong place.. What means on their slain? That he was as important as all their slain. Another explanation, on their slain. Just as their slain were irrelevant, so he was irrelevant. Another explanation, on their slain. He was flying over their corpses, but Phineas showed him the [High Priest’s] diadem and he fell down. Another explanation, on their slain. This teaches that Israel paid him his wages in full and did not hold back.

When Israel came to exact vengeance from Midian, they found there Bileam ben Beor. What did he do there? He came to collect his wages for the 24’000 of Israel who died at Shittim. Phineas told him, you followed neither your Creator nor Balaq. You did not follow your Creator, Who told you, do not go with Balaq’s emissaries, but you went. You did not follow Balaq who told you to come and curse Israel, but you blessed them. I also will not hold back your wages. That is what is written: The Children of Israel slew Bileam ben Beor the sorcerer on top of their slain²³⁰Jos. 13:22. The masoretic text, as represented by the Aleppo and Leningrad codices, reads אל־חלליהן, not על־. One finds על־חלליהן in Num. 31:8, not referring to Bileam but to the five tribal heads of Midian which in Num. are titled “kings” but in Jos.“princes of Sihon”. Jos. describes the situation before the arrival of the Children of Israel, Num. the actual situation after the fall of Sihon. One may read the following explanations as a polemic against opinions like that of M. Noth (Das Buch Josua, Tübingen 1938, p. 50) that אל־חלליהן is a gloss, taken from Num. 31:8 and inserted in the wrong place.. What means on their slain? That he was as important as all their slain. Another explanation, on their slain. Just as their slain were irrelevant, so he was irrelevant. Another explanation, on their slain. He was flying over their corpses, but Phineas showed him the [High Priest’s] diadem and he fell down. Another explanation, on their slain. This teaches that Israel paid him his wages in full and did not hold back.

These seven have no share in the World to Come: the scribe, the schoolteacher, the best doctors, the city judge, the magician, the sexton, and the butcher.