^7 (A)When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand, ⁸ and he went after the man of Israel into the inner room of the tent and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through the abdomen. ^(B)So the plague on the sons of Israel was brought to a halt. ^9 (C)But those who died from the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.