And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations--unto the age.
`Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath turned back My fury from the sons of Israel, by his being zealous with My zeal in their midst, and I have not consumed the sons of Israel in My zeal.
and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.