Numbers 25:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ Yet those who died by the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses: ¹¹ Phinehas (Eleazar’s son and Aaron the priest’s grandson) has turned back my rage toward the Israelites. Because he was jealous for me among you, I didn’t consume the Israelites due to my jealousy.