7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, 8 followed the Israelite man into the tent,(a) and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman—through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,

Footnotes:

a. Numbers 25:8: Perhaps a tent shrine or bridal tent

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