Numbers 25:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷ When Phinehas (Eleazar’s son and Aaron the priest’s grandson) saw this, he arose in the middle of the community, took a spear in his hand, ⁸ went after the Israelite man into the chamber, and stabbed the two of them, the Israelite man and the woman, through the stomach. Then the plague stopped spreading among the Israelites. ⁹ Yet those who died by the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.