Holy Scripture
Numbers 25:10
A church father on this verse
“And lest we appear to you to bring these things forth from our own understanding rather than from the authority of the divine Scriptures, go back to the book of Numbers and recall what Phinehas the priest did when he saw a harlot of the Midianite people with an Israelite man clinging in impure embraces in the eyes of…”
Source: Septuagint
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10And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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8and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.
— Numbers 25:10 —
11Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace: