And the Lord said to Moses,
And it was areckoned to him to rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; in gen-eration and into generation, till into without end.
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, priest, hath turned away my wrath from the sons of Israel; for he was moved against them by my fervent love, that, I myself not do away the sons of Israel in my great ferventness of vengeance.
and four and twenty thousand of men were slain.
