Numbers 25:9-11

EasyEnglish Bible

⁹ But 24,000 people had already died as a result of the disease.

¹⁰ The Lord said to Moses, ¹¹ ‘I am no longer angry with the Israelites. That is because of what Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, did. He did not want the people to worship any god except me. Because of him, I did not kill all the Israelites.