Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
Thou answeredst them, O Jehovah our God: Thou wast a God that forgavest them, Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.