The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.
Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the Kohen, has turned my wrath away from the children of Yisra'el, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Yisra'el in my jealousy.
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
