And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, Unto all generations for evermore.