Numbers 25:5-12

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

⁸and rushed into the man's tent. He thrust the spear completely through the man's body and into the woman's belly and killed both of them. When he did that, the ◄plague/serious illness► that had started to strike the Israelis stopped.

⁹But 24,000 people had already died from that plague.

¹⁰Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,

¹¹“Phinehas has caused me to stop being angry with the Israeli people, by being as eager as I am to stop this sinful behavior. I was ready to get rid of all the Israeli people because I was extremely angry, but Phinehas has prevented me from doing that.

¹²Now tell him that I am making a special peace agreement with him.