11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with My zeal,(a)(A) so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My zeal. 12 Therefore declare: I grant him My covenant of peace.(B) 13 It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants,(C) because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

Footnotes:

a. Numbers 25:11: Or jealousy

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