Numbers 25:3-7

³By doing that, those Israeli people joined the women in worshiping the god Baal add who the Moab people-group thought lived on Mount Peor. That caused Yahweh to become very angry with his people..

⁴Yahweh said this to Moses/me: “Seize all the leaders of those men who are doing this and execute them while I am watching. Do that in the daytime. After you do that, I will no longer be angry with the Israeli people.”

⁵So Moses/I said to the other Israeli leaders, “Each of you must execute your men who have joined others in worshiping Baal.”

⁶But later, while Moses/I and many HYP other people were crying at the entrance of the Sacred Tent, while they/we were watching, one of the Israeli men brought a woman from the Midian people-group into his tent and started to have sex with her.

⁷When Phinehas, who was the grandson of Aaron, saw that, he grabbed a spear