Then spake Yahweh unto Moses saying:
Then was it found that they who had died by the plague were four and twenty thousand.
Phinehas on of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, hath turned back my wrath front against the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy, in their midst, so that I made not an end of the sons of Israel. in my jealousy.
So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding.