Numbers 25:6-8

The Voice

⁶ Just then, even as people were dying right and left, one Israelite returned from among the Midianites with a woman whom he planned to make a part of his family. With her in tow, he walked right past Moses and everybody else while they were mourning in front of the congregation tent. ⁷ When Priest Aaron’s grandson Phinehas (Eleazar’s son) saw them, he took a spear in his hand. ⁸ He charged into the Israelite’s tent and ran the spear straight through the bellies of the couple. That one act appeased God’s anger and put an end to the death cascading through the Israelite camp.