Numbers 25:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷ Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron^[a] the priest, saw the couple and left the crowd. He found a spear ⁸ and followed the man into his tent, where he ran the spear through the man and into the woman's stomach. The Lord immediately stopped punishing Israel with a deadly disease, ⁹ but 24,000 Israelites had already died.