but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.
“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.
those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.
He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was halted.
The Lord spoke to Moses,
After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
And the Lord inflicted a plague on the people for what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men died.