Numbers 25:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁸ he went after the Israelite man into the tent and pierced the two of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the plague was stopped among the Israelites. ⁹ Nevertheless those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.^(A)

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,