25:7 When
Phinehas son of
Eleazar, the
son of
Aaron the
priest,
saw it,
he
got up from
among the
assembly,
took a
javelin in his
hand,
8 and
went after the
Israelite man into the
tent and
thrust through the
Israelite man and
into the
woman’s abdomen.
So the
plague was
stopped from the
Israelites.
9 Those that
died in the
plague were 24,000.
10 The Lord spoke to Moses: 11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal. 12 Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace. 13 So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, and has made atonement for the Israelites.’”
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