Bamidbar 25:9-11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁹ And those that were the mesim (dead ones) in the maggefah (plague) were twenty and four thousand.

[PINCHAS]

¹⁰ And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

¹¹ Pinchas ben Eleazar ben Aharon HaKohen, hath turned My wrath away from the Bnei Yisroel, when he had kanous (zealousness) with My kanous among them, that I consumed not the Bnei Yisroel in My kina (jealousy, zeal, vengeance).