Numbers 25:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ Nevertheless, those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ¹¹ ‘Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites by manifesting such zeal among them on my behalf that in my jealousy I did not consume the Israelites.