Numbers 25:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you is to kill those who joined themselves to Baal of Peor.”

⁶ Then one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his relatives before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the whole assembly of the people of Israel who were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Phinehas’ Zeal for God. ⁷ When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up and left the assembly, taking a spear in his hand.