Numbers 25:8-10

Easy-to-Read Version

⁸ He followed the Israelite into the tent. Then he used the spear to kill the Israelite man and the Midianite woman in her tent.^[a] He pushed the spear through both of their bodies. At that time there was a great sickness among the Israelites. But when Phinehas killed these two people, the sickness stopped. ⁹ A total of 24,000 people died from that sickness.

¹⁰ The Lord said to Moses,