Numbers 25:5–13

⁵And Moses said unto ⁱthe judges of Israel, ^kSlay ye every one his men that were joined unto ^fBaal-peor. ⁶And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were ^lweeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. ⁷And ^mwhen Phinehas, ⁿthe son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from amongst the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; ⁸and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So ^othe plague was stayed from the children of Israel. ⁹And ^pthose that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

¹⁰And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹¹Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, ^qhath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in ^rmy jealousy. ¹²Wherefore say, ^sBehold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: ¹³and he shall have it, and ^this seed after him, even the covenant of ^uan everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.