(A)When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he arose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand, and he went after the man of Israel into the [a]tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the [b]body. (B)So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked. (C)Those who died by the plague were 24,000.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 25:8 Or inner rooms
  2. Numbers 25:8 Or belly