And Pinchas the son of Elazar, the son of Aharon the Kohen, saw, and he rose from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.
Torah Temimah: Chullin 134b — priestly gifts correspond to Pinchas’s act.
English: It was taught: It is written, “And he shall give to the Kohen the foreleg and the jaws and the maw.” The expounders of difficult passages would say: the foreleg corresponds to the hand, as it says, “And he took a spear in his hand”; the jaws correspond to prayer, as it is written, “And Pinchas stood and prayed”; the maw as its plain meaning, as it is written, “and the woman through her belly.”
Correspondence of priestly gifts to the zealot’s limbs and act.
The perpetual gifts to the Kohen memorialize hand, prayer, and the precise strike — the act of 25:7 is written into the daily due of the priesthood.