5. Moses told Israel's officials, “Each of you must put to death any of your men who worshipped Baal.”
6. Later, Moses and the people were at the sacred tent, crying, when one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman to meet his family.
7. Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron the priest, saw the couple and left the crowd. He found a spear
8. and followed the man into his tent, where he ran the spear through the man and into the woman's stomach. The Lord immediately stopped punishing Israel with a deadly disease,
9. but twenty-four thousand Israelites had already died.
10. The Lord said to Moses,