Numbers 25:5-12

⁵And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Baal-peor.

⁶And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Midianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

⁷And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand,

⁸and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

⁹And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

¹⁰And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

¹¹Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

¹²Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace: