And the Lord said to Moses:
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.
