^{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.