Numbers 25:3–9

³And Israel ^ejoined himself unto ^fBaal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. ⁴And the Lord said unto Moses, ^gTake all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, ^hthat the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. 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 among 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.