And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
And those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.
And that was reckoned to him for righteousness to all generations for evermore.
