And the Lord said to Moses,
And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation for ever.
“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
