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.