Numbers 25:5–13

⁵So Moses said to ⁱthe judges of Israel, ^j“Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.”

⁶And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, ^kwho were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ⁷Now ^lwhen Phinehas ^mthe son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose 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 body. So ⁿthe plague was ^ostopped among the children of Israel. ⁹And ^pthose who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ^11q“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in ^rMy zeal. ¹²Therefore say, ^s‘Behold, I give to him My ^tcovenant of peace; ¹³and it shall be to him and ^uhis descendants after him a covenant of ^van everlasting priesthood, because he was ^wzealous for his God, and ^xmade ²atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”