^{7 Ref} and Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priest, seeth, and riseth from the midst of the company, and taketh a javelin in his hand,

^{8 Ref} and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman -- unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

^{9 Ref} and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

¹⁰ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

^{11 Ref} `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.

^{12 Ref} `Therefore say, Lo, I am giving to him My covenant of peace,

^{13 Ref} and it hath been to him and to his seed after him a covenant of a priesthood age-during, because that he hath been zealous for his God, and doth make atonement for the sons of Israel.'