Numbers 25:7-15

Christian Standard Bible

⁷ When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, ⁸ followed the Israelite man into the tent,^[a] and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman—through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped, ⁹ but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.^(A)

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses, ¹¹ “Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with my zeal,^[b](B) so that I did not destroy the Israelites in my zeal. ¹² Therefore declare: I grant him my covenant of peace.^{(C) 13} It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants,^(D) because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

¹⁴ The name of the slain Israelite man, who was struck dead with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.^{[c] 15} The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of a family in Midian.