After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest:
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.
As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.